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Students And Tv Licenses
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Boy #1 is in halls at uni. He watches tv programmes through Amazon prime and Sky go, never anything live (doesn’t watch BBC or ITV), does he need his own tv licence? (be a complete rip off if he does). I have looked at the tv
licence website but I don’t think it’s massively clear.
licence website but I don’t think it’s massively clear.
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Looks clear, check this.
//Am I already covered?
A university halls communal licence won’t cover your room. But you may be covered by your parents’ licence. If you think you are, please check that all of the following are true before telling us you don’t need one:
Your out-of-term address (parents’ address) is covered by a TV Licence
AND you only use TV receiving equipment that is powered solely by its own internal batteries
AND you have not connected it to an aerial or plugged it into the mains.//
Looks clear, check this.
//Am I already covered?
A university halls communal licence won’t cover your room. But you may be covered by your parents’ licence. If you think you are, please check that all of the following are true before telling us you don’t need one:
Your out-of-term address (parents’ address) is covered by a TV Licence
AND you only use TV receiving equipment that is powered solely by its own internal batteries
AND you have not connected it to an aerial or plugged it into the mains.//
Sherr, may I pick your brains?
My grandson wants to be a paramedic , he’s 15.5 and will be doing his GCSEs next year, he wanted the police force but that’s out of reach as he’s extremely long sighted due to being born very prematurely ( 24.5 weeks) so his eyesight wouldn’t get him through as you need to read the two bottom lines on the chart without contacts or glasses, my daughter took him to a careers fair and he really has set his heart on being a paramedic , there was and ambulance there with crew who talked to him in depth, what grades did your boy get ( if you don’t mind my asking)?
My grandson wants to be a paramedic , he’s 15.5 and will be doing his GCSEs next year, he wanted the police force but that’s out of reach as he’s extremely long sighted due to being born very prematurely ( 24.5 weeks) so his eyesight wouldn’t get him through as you need to read the two bottom lines on the chart without contacts or glasses, my daughter took him to a careers fair and he really has set his heart on being a paramedic , there was and ambulance there with crew who talked to him in depth, what grades did your boy get ( if you don’t mind my asking)?
Given the numbers of people, particularly students and 20-30 year olds who only watch TV on iplayer or equivalent but still in theory need a licence but very often don't because it's almost impossible to be enforced, the whole system of TV licensing now seems very out of date and is almost a voluntary tax . High time it was abolished but unfortunately it won't be
More info here for telling them you don't need a licence.
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I think this makes things a bit clearer- see the bit on what is licensable (is that really a word?) and what is non-licensable
3. Definitions
3.0 Licensable activity – under the Communications Act 2003 and Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 (as amended) licensable activity broadly means using or installing any device to: a) watch or record any television programme service;
b) watch or record any television programme at the same time (or virtually at the same time) as it is being shown on any television programme service; or
c) (as of 1st September 2016) watch or download any BBC programme on demand on BBC iPlayer, even if it is accessed through another provider, such as Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview or BT.
Licensable activity does not include:
a) watching programmes by means of pre-recorded media such as DVD and Bluray;
b) downloading or watching S4C TV on demand on BBC iPlayer or listening to radio programmes on BBC iPlayer.
c) downloading or watching on demand programmes from other providers, such as:
ITV Hub, All 4 or Demand 5 BT Vision, Virgin Media or Sky Go Netflix or Now TV
3. Definitions
3.0 Licensable activity – under the Communications Act 2003 and Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 (as amended) licensable activity broadly means using or installing any device to: a) watch or record any television programme service;
b) watch or record any television programme at the same time (or virtually at the same time) as it is being shown on any television programme service; or
c) (as of 1st September 2016) watch or download any BBC programme on demand on BBC iPlayer, even if it is accessed through another provider, such as Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview or BT.
Licensable activity does not include:
a) watching programmes by means of pre-recorded media such as DVD and Bluray;
b) downloading or watching S4C TV on demand on BBC iPlayer or listening to radio programmes on BBC iPlayer.
c) downloading or watching on demand programmes from other providers, such as:
ITV Hub, All 4 or Demand 5 BT Vision, Virgin Media or Sky Go Netflix or Now TV
Bobbs, he got mostly A’s and some B’s in his GCSEs and A*, B, B and C in his A levels but these were below what they wanted. I think he must have smashed his interview and they offered him a place that afternoon (he already had his results as he had a year out) - he is really good with people and comes across as v confident for his age without being conceited (probably a valued skill for a paramedic).
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