TV Licensing Letter

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So today, I recieved this letter:

http://i.imgur.com/zKLVqzv.jpg

A few questions:

1) The letter is addressed to "The Legal Occupier". I was always under the impression that you cannot take someone to court if you do not know their name?

2) They cannot apply for a search warrant, surely?

3) An officer can take my statement under caution? A what? A police officer? Surely this is a civil matter, the police would not get involved?

I told TV Licensing 4 years ago when I moved into this property that I did not need a TV license. I refuse to do it every year and especially now that they seem to have even lost my details as they no longer seem to know who I am.
 
ubern00b said:
So today, I recieved this letter:

http://i.imgur.com/zKLVqzv.jpg

A few questions:

1) The letter is addressed to "The Legal Occupier". I was always under the impression that you cannot take someone to court if you do not know their name?

2) They cannot apply for a search warrant, surely?

3) An officer can take my statement under caution? A what? A police officer? Surely this is a civil matter, the police would not get involved?

I told TV Licensing 4 years ago when I moved into this property that I did not need a TV license. I refuse to do it every year and especially now that they seem to have even lost my details as they no longer seem to know who I am.
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That letter doesn't say anything at all.

The only salient point is that "An officer has been scheduled to visit". Well that's hardly anything new. If you want to let them in, then let them in and demonstrate that you're not watching TV. If you don't want to let them in, don't.

They send out thousands of those letters and they have nothing to do with court proceedings etc. Of course, if the officer visited and found evidence suggesting that you were watching TV, then he might apply for a warrant, and then a court might agree, etc, but that's all dependent on the officer visit.
 
Well if you don't watching live television (or use iPlayer/use other causes to need a TV licence), then you have nothing to worry about.

Legally you do not have to let them into your property anyway.
 
1) Technically you could take someone to court without knowing their name
2) They could apply for a search warrant but the likelihood of one being granted is miniscule without decent evidence to give reasonable suspicion. This is a scare tactic.
3) Bear in mind you are under no obligation to give a statement if you don't feel you want to. It's very unlikely the police would ever get involved although this is a criminal offence not civil.
 
I get the same. I told them last year and nothing has changed... I'll let them waste their time/resources threatening me wit court proceedings lol... Who exactly are they gonna summon? The 'legal occupier'? Morons.
 
Why don't you let them know you don't watch TV via the Web link they gave you.

You'll soon need a license away as the la we is being changed isn'f it?

Andi.
 
I don't see an issue. If they come, let them in. Or are you trying to hide the fact that you do watch TV and just don't want to pay ?
 
Don't know why I bother posting in GD, honestly.

Thank you Burnsy2023, the only person to actually answer my questions.

I am fully aware of how the whole thing works, I do not watch live television or catch up or anything of the sort so I do not need a TV License. I will let them in if they come to my door but they never do, or it is when I am not in (during work hours or the like). I have told them via the web link that I do not require a TV license, I do not feel like I need to do it every single year. They can jog on.

If the law changes where I have to pay a license then I will, Andi. Until then, I don't need one, I won't pay one and I find their incessant scare tactics tiring.
 
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Put it in the bin and decline them entry and remove there implied right of access, if they bother turning up, they have no right to enter your home. If they they turn up with a "policeman", state they need a warrant, signed by a judge to enter your house, and shut the door on them.
 
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MatsyLR said:
Please...

Put it in the bin and decline them entry and remove there implied right of access, if they bother turning up, they have no right to enter your home. If they they turn up with a "policeman", state they need a warrant, signed by a judge to enter your house, and shut the door on them.
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Remove it beforehand! That way they can't step onto any part of your property
 
In my last year of Uni when I shared a house, we got a letter early on, I just rang them up and said "we don't watch TV". They sent a chap round, I showed him around and he said "thanks", and the TV Licensing Agency were never heard from again.
 
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