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Troyboy

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6 minutes ago, MargeandParge said:

No and if you did the detector vans would sink trying to catch you:default_biggrin:

Kindest Regards Marge and Parge 

This made me smile. 

It was reported on the news recently that the vast majority of detector vans were only used to frighten people into getting a TV licence. They were completely useless apparently. 

 

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Bikertov

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https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ30#
 

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You'll need to buy a TV Licence for your static caravan, mobile home or moveable chalet if:

  • anyone, at the same time, is watching TV channels on any TV service, watching live TV on streaming services, or using BBC iPlayer* at your main licensed address.
  • the caravan or mobile home is your main residence.

If you don’t need a licence for your caravan or mobile please complete a Non-simultaneous use declaration form below:

These rules only apply if:

  • Your caravan, mobile home or chalet is capable of being moved by being towed or transported on a motor vehicle or trailer.
  • You have a TV Licence at your home address.

No mention of boats !

Therefore I would argue that a licence is not required on a boat

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Wussername

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1 hour ago, ExSurveyor said:

No, as long as you have one for your home and no one else is using the TV there.

Thanks for that. So, if I telephone the wife and ask her to turn the telly off whilst I watch Police Interceptors and vice versa if she wants to watch Come Prancing that would be OK ?

Oh. What about hire boats presumably the hire boat company pays?

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Bikertov

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19 minutes ago, Bikertov said:

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ30#
 

No mention of boats !

Therefore I would argue that a licence is not required on a boat

OK, I was bit wrong on this, but too late to edit the original post

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news/view.app?id=1369783539618#

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/for-your-home/second-home-aud8

So it looks like you need one for a residential boat, but for a non-residential you are covered by your home TV licence.

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I once had a job ‘chasing rabbits’ (posh job title was vertebrate population ecologist).
I radiocollared a certain proportion of the rabbits and had to map their range. So I’d spend my days wandering the countryside with a big aerial, something akin to a TV aerial. 

A fox had killed a rabbit and as it turned out, had buried it in a drain in some scrub on the edge of a housing estate. I was aiming to retrieve the collar, which was quite costly and so worth paying my wages for. I knew it was a dead rabbit as they emit a different signal once not moved for 24 hours. 

Anyway, I was wandering around this housing estate with a control box and wafting this TV aerial around, trying to hone in on the direction. A lady came out of her house to ask if I was a Television Detector person. 

I often wonder how many people turned off their daytime tv viewing that day. 

I did find the collar after fetching a spade to clear out the drain! All in a day’s work. 

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Smoggy

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Theorically if you don't have a licence at home you need one on your boat, but it will never be checked so who cares.

Next time you chat to a live bord ask if they have a tv licence......

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CambridgeCabby

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When we lived right in the center of Cambridge we got collared twice for having no tv licence , and paid the fee within 48hrs to avoid a penalty , we were not intentionally avoiding paying it but had allowed it to lapse .

Thankfully a standing order now prevents a repeat 

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Woodie

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4 hours ago, Wussername said:

Oh. What about hire boats presumably the hire boat company pays?

In the lodge we have the Lakes the company we use to market it provided a notice stating that the holiday maker must have a tv licence at home and that no one should be using it. If they could not comply with these requirements then they must not use the tv!!
Bet that works….. 

Large company with a legal department, so guess they’ve looked into it.

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Meantime

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On 07/06/2024 at 22:14, Woodie said:

In the lodge we have the Lakes the company we use to market it provided a notice stating that the holiday maker must have a tv licence at home and that no one should be using it. If they could not comply with these requirements then they must not use the tv!!
Bet that works….. 

Large company with a legal department, so guess they’ve looked into it.

Looks like they haven't looked into it properly then!!

For certain classes of accommodation, boat, touring caravan, vehicles, static caravans, mobile homes or moveable chalets, the owner of the accommodation needs to fill in a non simultaneous use declaration form downloadable from TV Licensing which gives details of their primary residence where the TV license is registered and the other accommodation they watch TV in and declaring that the TV is not watched in both locations at the same time. This would not extend to anyone else renting or using the holiday let.

If TV equipment is provided at holiday lets, then a license must be paid for by the property owner.

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Islander

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So I can have 4+ TVs on at my main address but can’t turn the one on the boat on. They are having a laugh. I bet Griff doesn’t ring his mrs and tell her to turn off her tv so he can watch the boats tv.  
Quite honestly I wouldn’t worry to much about it. You are more likely to be caught passing a cyclist too close than having a tv on both at home and on your boat simultaneously.

Colin :default_drinks:

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33 minutes ago, Islander said:

So I can have 4+ TVs on at my main address but can’t turn the one on the boat on. They are having a laugh. I bet Griff doesn’t ring his mrs and tell her to turn off her tv so he can watch the boats tv.  
Quite honestly I wouldn’t worry to much about it. You are more likely to be caught passing a cyclist too close than having a tv on both at home and on your boat simultaneously.

Colin :default_drinks:

That's about the size of it. The whole TV license thing is a farce anyway and it's long overdue for being scrapped in my opinion.

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StillCruising

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The detector van advert always made me smile. Without getting technical back in the day when tv's had CRT's they could actually transmit a signal that could be received by a directional aerial IF you were close enough. It wasn't accurate and the claim that they could tell what program thay you were watching was totally false. In reality they just visited a street and knocked on doors, later they had lists of houses that had a registered licence as they still do. At the time I had a friend who didn't ever have a TV and he gave up counting the times he had the license people at his door.

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1 hour ago, StillCruising said:

 At the time I had a friend who didn't ever have a TV and he gave up counting the times he had the license people at his door.

The best way of dealing with this kind of harassment is to write to the BBC and tell them you are withdrawing the implied right of access to your property. This means that anybody from TV licensing entering your property, or walking up your garden path will then technically be trespassing.

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grendel

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TV, I dont watch TV, I have TV's, most are used as glorified computer monitors, watching TV on the boat isnt on the cards (though I might watch the occasional youtube video, the last time I watched TV (the kings coronation( i had to retune the freesat box as it had been turned off so long it had lost all the channels.

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