hilldweller
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I thought that demanding money with menaces was a crime in this country?
HMCR have just fallen over laughing.
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I thought that demanding money with menaces was a crime in this country?
On the Banda machine next to your old CRT telly by any chance?
(1)If a justice of the peace, a sheriff in Scotland or a lay magistrate in Northern Ireland is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for believing—
(a)that an offence under section 363 has been or is being committed,
(b)that evidence of the commission of the offence is likely to be on premises specified in the information, or in a vehicle so specified, and
(c)that one or more of the conditions set out in subsection (3) is satisfied,
he may grant a warrant under this section.
You have no obligation to grant entry to an enquiry officer if you don’t wish to do so. If refused entry by the occupier, the enquiry officer will leave the property. If enquiry officers are refused access, then TV Licensing reserve the right to use other methods of detection.
Enquiry officers may apply for authorisation to use detection equipment if they are refused entry on to premises. TV Licensing may also apply to a magistrate (or sheriff in Scotland) for a search warrant. However, this is only done as a last resort and when a senior manager and a legal adviser considers that there is good reason to believe that an offence has been committed
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they used to take your name when you bought any receiving equipment, do they still do that?
The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 (as amended) has been repealed, meaning that from 25 June 2013 onwards you no longer need to send us customer name and address details when you sell or rent out TV equipment. This also means your business no longer has to keep sales records to comply with the law on TV Licensing. If you don’t need these records for anything else you can destroy them from 25 June.
I think withdrawing the implied rights of access would be counter productive, and simply make yourself highly visible to the TVLA.. Might just as well place a target around your neck.
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Interesting. Sounds like they pick on the low hanging fruit and avoid the potentially knowledgeable challengesActually, it works a treat. They don't bother you again.