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Originally Posted by Chris T
I have emailed TV Licencing and challenged them to name the legislation that empowers them to require unlicenced homes to declare themselves. We shall see what they say when forced to speak in explicit terms instead of muddy statements that imply they have powers that I don't believe they have ....
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A prompt and helpful reply to my email:
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Thank you for your e-mail.
TV Licensing has a responsibility to ensure everyone who uses television equipment to receive or record television programmes is covered by the appropriate licence. Part of this process involves writing to and visiting addresses that are not covered by a valid television licence.
If someone genuinely does not use their television equipment to watch or record programmes, they will not need to hold a licence. However, to help us to avoid troubling the occupier with unnecessary enquiries, we can update our records to show that this is the case. We will need the address and postcode of the property to enable us to do this.
I trust this clarifies the situation for you.
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So, from the horse's mouth. If you don't receive TV broadcasts, you don't need a licence and you don't need to tell TV licencing anything.