The Ministry of Justice said that from , a total of people were handed custodial sentences for not paying fines. Non-recordable offences are typically for things like travelling on a train or tube without a ticket.
This is actually half true. But this applies to non-live, catch-up TV and non-live catch-up TV only. You will also need to formally opt out of paying for a licence, which will require you to contact TV Licensing or fill out a form on its site.
Hopefully this has cleared up some misconceptions you may or may not have had about the licence fee. Update: This article has been amended to correct inaccuracies related to fines in Scotland, Guernsey and Jersey.
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Listen to BBC Radio. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. I hope this alerts anyone who thought they were within the law because they watched TV programmes on their smartphones or via a Roku stick in the back of a monitor.
These services are, after all, paid for by advertising. This exception was only introduced in September , and not everyone knows about it. The concept of the TV licence was based on households, and has been extended to shops, offices and other business premises.
Once you had a TV licence registered to your home address, it covered numerous people watching live TV on numerous TV sets. Things got a little more complicated once you could watch live TV on a mobile device, which meant you could watch it outside your licensed home.
The solution to this conundrum is battery power. Your home TV licence covers your mobile use outside the home, as long as you watch TV on battery power. However, if you plug your device into a mains socket outside your home, that site needs its own TV licence.
Technically, this should also apply if you plug in your device to watch TV or BBC iPlayer in a coffee shop or on a train, and so on, though that would be somewhat hard to control. This has separate sections for home, student and business addresses. First, you can get a refund on fees you have already paid. Second, it will avoid the problems that will arise if you simply stop paying.
For example, occupiers may move house or change their viewing habits such that a licence is required. The collection system is contracted out to Capita. You can refuse them entry, but they may come back with a search warrant. Hundreds of thousands of people have been prosecuted — some of them living in poverty — and some have been jailed for not paying fines.
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