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TV licence query… changed house

  • 27-02-2016 4:56pm
    #1
    Dinny Byrne has Angina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭


    I just moved out of a temporary apartment.

    I didn't have a licence in that place, because it was temporary; I occupied that apartment for one month only. I told the TV licence people this.

    I've now left that property , and there is a new tenant. The new tenant, the landlord and myself have all contacted the Tv licence people to say that I am now living back at home, but they say that I still must buy a licence for the flat. The new tenant, as far as I have been made aware, has a licence.

    No legal proceedings have issued, however the TV licence people say they will issue.

    I know I was technically liable for the month that I lived in that flat, but was that liability not extinguished when I was replaced by a new tenant?

    In other words, surely the TV licence people should have issued legal proceedings, if they desired, whilst I was living there? Are they out of time?


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Dinny Byrne has Angina wrote: »
    In other words, surely the TV licence people should have issued legal proceedings, if they desired, whilst I was living there? Are they out of time?

    You can transfer a licence form one premises to another. If you want to just buy the licence and transfer it immediately to your new one.


  • #3
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    If you are the tenant in an apartment, it's up to you to have a TV license. Being a temporary tenant is not an excuse for not having one. If a TL license inspector knocked on your door while you were living at the apartment and, you didn't have one, he can issue a fine for not having one.

    If you moved out shortly afterwards, that is irrelevant. You didn't have a license during the time period that you were living in the apartment and that is what you are being fined for. It's very unlucky that an inspector called, if you were only there a month, but that's life.


  • #4
    Dinny Byrne has Angina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Dinny Byrne has Angina


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    You can transfer a licence form one premises to another. If you want to just buy the licence and transfer it immediately to your new one.
    If i had moved into a new place that would be fine, but there's already a licence in the place I'm living.
    ProudDUB wrote:
    Being a temporary tenant is not an excuse for not having one.
    Nobody is seriously going to buy a TV licence when they are temporarily staying somewhere for only a few weeks.

    The law does not facilitate that, but that's not what I'm asking.

    My question relates to whether legal proceedings can be issued if a tenant is no longer in occupation of a premises (as confirmed by a landlord)

    Currently they are giving warnings but, as far as i can see, there's nothing to warn me about (and the landlord says he has been returning the letters)


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