Tv license in Northern Ireland

[Consumer dude]

Well, is their ?

[Michael Browne]

Let me google that for you

[maroondevo52]

Is that a trick question ?

[Consumer dude]

Is that a trick question ?

 

 

 

 

Not at all, I was just curious about how the law works their regarding tv licensing..

[ErikaPNP]

I would imagine that it would work in exactly the same manner as the rest of the United Kingdom

[maroondevo52]

Not at all, I was just curious about how the law works their regarding tv licensing..

 

Sorry, did'nt mean to offend, just my warped sense of humor

[andydd]

"TV Licensing today revealed that more than 214,000 people were caught watching TV without a licence across the UK during the first six months of 2009.

This included more than 10,300 people in Northern Ireland"

 

Naughty Northern Irelanders !

[buzby]

But they get round it by taking their TV across the border in a wheelbarrow to evate capture. Actually, back in the days when BT ran the fleet of detector vans, they were a hot target to be firebombed (I saw one in flames in Newry) but there wasn't any rush to put it out....

[noomill060]

Hello from NI.

 

TV detector vans in Republican areas (along with bailiffs) were dicing with death from 1969 onwards. A culture of evasion grew up as detector vans were regularly attacked as protection for them was regarded as low priority by Police.

 

Even the Police (armed in NI) needed Army protection.

 

Vans were hijacked, burned out and the occupants given two minutes to get out of the area.

 

There is still a culture of non-paying in some areas.

 

It was open season on bailiffs, with the IRA considering them as ligitimate targets to be shot on sight. Several were found in ditches over the Border with holes in their heads, still clutching their Warrants of Execution. Nice touch of irony.

 

The post of "bailiff" was abolished in 1970 and has never been reinstated

Edited November 16, 2009 by noomill060

[andydd]

Hello from NI.

 

TV detector vans in Republican areas (along with bailiffs) were dicing with death from 1969 onwards. A culture of evasion grew up as detector vans were regularly attacked as protection for them was regarded as low priority by Police.

 

Even the Police (armed in NI) needed Army protection.

 

Vans were hijacked, burned out and the occupants given two minutes to get out of the area.

 

There is still a culture of non-paying in some areas.

 

It was open season on bailiffs, with the IRA considering them as ligitimate targets to be shot on sight. Several were found in ditches over the Border with holes in their heads, still clutching their Warrants of Execution. Nice touch of irony.

 

The post of "bailiff" was abolished in 1970 and has never been reinstated

 

Seeing as I believe only 20 vans ever existed in the whole of the UK, I wonder how many ended up in flames, they arn't used at all now of course.

[buzby]

3 - all Commers. They never made it back to Blighty!

[noomill060]

A few years ago there was a spate of Post Office vans being hijacked and burned out and the postie sent on his way.

 

(All the mail sacks were removed and left at the local Post Office for redelivery the next day- they were full of Giros!)

 

On an earlier occasion the Newry combined Tax Office/DHSS building was firebombed by the IRA and everyone in Newry missed out on their Giros that week.

 

The culprit was kneecapped by popular request.

[noomill060]

3 - all Commers. They never made it back to Blighty!

 

Hence the culture of TV licence fee evasion.

 

(If the Brits dont know youre watching Morecambe and Wise without a licence, why bother to buy one?)

 

Same with tax discs on cars- if they cant serve a summons on you 'cos the cops cant get into your estate without causing a riot, you may as well stick a Guinness label in your Cortina's windscreen!

 

All changed now, in most areas.

[djgordyp]

A few years ago there was a spate of Post Office vans being hijacked and burned out and the postie sent on his way.

My father was a victim of this in the seventies. I can still remember seeing the van (a Morris Minor) being towed behind an army recovery vehicle.