TV Licence

[Kathyan]

Not sure if this is the right category, but anyway... My husband is away in N Ireland in the Army. He lives in the Mess and has been told that he has to have a TV licence for the TV in his room. We pay for a TV licence for our home so why should we have to pay again just because he has to live away from home as part of his job?

[lady_p_gold]

Well he needs to speak to the army about it ... does that mean that each individual soldier has a TV licence. Mind you I suppose it is no diffferent than my daughter having to have one while away at University ..... I can see your point though

[THECORBYLOON]

See here it relates to the Navy but it would apply to the Army too.

[buildersmate]

He has to have one for the same reason students away at college need one - licences are per dwelling, not per family. He doesn't have to have a TV in his room, presumably.

[spaced]

TV licences cover TV's under the address on the licence, not the people. Therefore your tv licence is for any tv at the address on your licence.

[buildersmate]

Not quite true, because the soldiers' Mess in Kathyan's example will be a single address. The point is that the occupants have their lockable doors within the block - so each one constitutes a different dwelling unfortunately.

[stanleyman]

If he has a tv powered by internal batteries then he doesn't need a licence. Can be done but knowing the Army they'll make him pay anyway, life isn't always fair but he can always cancel it everytime he goes off camp. Might as well spend his time drinking and get rid of the tv! I wonder if prisoners have tv licences and do the detector vans ever get in to find them!

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp