Do you have to respond to TV license letters?

Do you have to respond to TV license letters?

Remember, a TV Licence isn’t just for TV sets. If you have just told us you don’t need a licence and then receive a letter from us a day or so after, this is usually because our records are being updated. You don’t need to respond. Find out more about when you need a TV Licence.

Can TV license be enforced?

If you do not have a TV licence, TV Licensing can send an enforcement officer out to your house to ensure you are not watching licensable content. A TV Licensing Enforcement Officer must verbally caution you that anything you say to them may be used in evidence against you in court.

Do I have to let TV Licence inspector in?

Can TV licence inspectors visit your house? Inspectors can visit your house, although you’re likely to receive a letter before this point. You can refuse to let an inspector in, but this might lead to them getting a court order – which means they would be allowed to enter by law without your permission.

Are TV license letters harassment?

Generally speaking, everything that BBC/TVL routinely does is non-statutory (has no legislation behind it) and therefore you can ignore it. This includes the threatening letters and the routine “home visits”. None of the demands and coercion in the letters has any legal significance and they can all be safely ignored.

Do you legally have to pay your TV license?

The requirement to hold a TV Licence and to pay a fee for it is mandated by law under the Communications Act 2003 and the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 (as amended). Even if you access BBC iPlayer through another provider, such as Sky, Virgin, Freeview or BT, you must have a licence.

Can TV Licence send bailiffs?

It stresses that under the current system enforcing court fines is a matter for the courts, not the broadcaster, and that TV Licensing does not hire bailiffs.

Does anyone get prosecuted for not having a TV Licence?

No, you can’t go to prison for not having a TV licence. The court can only give you a fine for this. But if you don’t pay, the court can take further action to collect the fine, including sending you to prison as a last resort.

Can TV licence send bailiffs?

Do you get threatening letters from TV Licensing?

Since then we have received a series of threatening letters from TV Licensing each one more unpleasant than the last and we have also had a visit from an enforcement officer. I was out at the time but my husband just said to him that we didn’t need a licence and shut the door.

Is TV Licensing a law enforcement official?

They are not officials, but it is central to their bluff that people think they are. The power of the threatening letters which TV Licensing sends (I have received more than 100 and never answered any of them) lies in their implicit threat that they have legal force.

Are TV Licensing sending letters to BBC customers as vermin?

Journalist Alex Singleton, who used to write for the Telegraph and now works at the Daily Mail, summarised his thoughts: “The letters sent by TV Licensing are not acceptable. Rather than treat the BBC’s customers decently, TV Licensing instead sees them as vermin, sending letters that intimidate and cause distress”.

Did the TV Licensing people get the message?

Well it looks as if the TV Licensing people haven’t got the message yet, even though their enforcement officers paid us a visit just over a week ago. I moved to this house a few months ago by the way and have so far completely ignored all the warnings that they have sent demanding that I buy a TV Licence or possibly face a fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDXay0Fzp0