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TV Licence Observation

ShaneOC · 2003-05-01 10:12:16

Having recently moved into a new house I went about getting a TV licence this week (yeah the inspector called :D ). I went to my local post office and paid my €150 for the licence. That's that or so I though but when I was looking at it last night I noticed that it is valid from the 29th of April to the 31st of March. I…

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01-05-2003 11:12am

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ShaneOC

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Having recently moved into a new house I went about getting a TV licence this week (yeah the inspector called ). I went to my local post office and paid my €150 for the licence. That's that or so I though but when I was looking at it last night I noticed that it is valid from the 29th of April to the 31st of March.

I was rather peeved to say the least. If you are paying for a licence for a year then it should be valid for a year. I have sent an email off to the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs explaining my complaint. They replied back saying that if you get a renewal notice that the licence is backdated to the date of that notice. Glad to see they paid attention to my complaint.

Having ranted about that, the staff at the post office could have said hang on two days and it would not have been an issue.

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