Who is going to renew VHF licence???

Which one would you choose

  • Sir Malcolm Rifkind

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  • David Davis

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  • David Cameron

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  • Kenneth Clarke

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  • Liam Fox

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Re: This is a no brainer!

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Friend of mine at Ofcom says
"all those people that have paid £20 to re-newed their licence that takes them beyond Oct 1st 06 are registered on our system and can re-new on-line FOC. All those that don't re-new will be charged £20 to re-register and they may lose their call sign and MMSI number".....

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This Ofcom document (bottom of page 3, 2.9) says otherwise with regards to charging after 1st October.
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

Mark
It looks like you're right but in my defence my post was issued a couple of hours before the statement was issued.

Which leads on to an interesting question - if I have a new boat and want to licence it on-line, presumably the system has some way of issuing/allocating a call sign and mmsi number automatically!

Peter.
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

Be interesting to see. I will be cancelling my licence when they want £20 to renew it on 27th September and then applying for a new (free) one on the 1st October, I wonder if I will get a new callsign or the old one re issued.
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

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...strewth this is hard work! Click below:

http://www.radiolicenceforms.co.uk/

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Brendan, your link is for the current licence which is sent out by post. I think the point Peter is making is that when the documentation is internet based, there must be some automated way of the callsign/mmsi being allocated "automatically". You enter your details and then print out your pdf licence with this information on it.
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

suspect the link will be pretty much the same, but you get a print link to a licence . No need for it yet, as they still have consultation documents going live today
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

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if you read the document, still consultation, so no guarantee of anything just at the moment

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They are a quango, consultation=this is what we have decided /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: This is a no brainer!

just this once, I hope they are swimming through the motions <sic> and will deliver on time, and this is just a belated consultation they don't actually need! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
L\'escargot ...

But surely that is not right ...

Cancelling will put you slap bang back on for paying £20 to have a new one issued online or not. The Free licence is only for existing "current" licence at time of change-over ....

I sympathise about your 27th Sept. - but unfortunately as I have understood from all the docs / materials available ex web site ... fee is payable if you don't have current in-force licence and also if not on-line renewal.

I for one have renewed to make sure I have my free issue later ...

OK - so its still Consultation and nothing definite yet ..... but I have a feeling we would not have all this junk being spread around the Ofcom site etc. if nothing was to happen ... I reckon what we are reading will happen ....
 
Re: L\'escargot ...

If you read the Ofcom document, it states: "Ofcom proposes to make these licences free when applied for and delivered over the internet and only charge £20 (irrespective of type) for any new licences applied for and/or delivered manually (i.e. hard copy)". Seems pretty clear to me.
 
Re: L\'escargot ...

>>>>>>charge £20 (irrespective of type) for any new licences applied for

But isn't that effectively what you will be doing ... as I read your post - you propose to cancel your existing by not renewing on 27th Sept. Then applying for what will be new licence after new system start ... as you say - plain wording ... at least I think it is ... The bit about manual hard copy - is additional as I read it - the important bit is New Licence whether on-line or not..... will incur £20 charge.

Backing that up is the "Licence Fee's Table" in the PDF document issued yesterday ... which shows clearly that new applications on the new system will get charged £20 irrespective of method of application used ... well thats what I read and saw ... maybe another can show different ????


Maybe we are reading what we want to read in it ????
 
Re: L\'escargot ...

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>>>>>>charge £20 (irrespective of type) for any new licences applied for

But isn't that effectively what you will be doing ... as I read your post - you propose to cancel your existing by not renewing on 27th Sept. Then applying for what will be new licence after new system start ... as you say - plain wording ... at least I think it is ... The bit about manual hard copy - is additional as I read it - the important bit is New Licence whether on-line or not..... will incur £20 charge.

Backing that up is the "Licence Fee's Table" in the PDF document issued yesterday ... which shows clearly that new applications on the new system will get charged £20 irrespective of method of application used ... well thats what I read and saw ... maybe another can show different ????

Maybe we are reading what we want to read in it ????

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You are cropping and changing the meaning, it actually says in full:

"Ofcom proposes to make these licences free when applied for and delivered over the internet and only charge £20 (irrespective of type) for any new licences applied for and/or delivered manually (i.e. hard copy). Ofcom intends to charge these fees when licences are issued, in order to recover part of the administration cost associated with manually handling or issuing paper licences."

and the licence table says for Ships Radio:

"Free, for lifetime of licence, if obtained via internet. £20, for lifetime of licence, if not obtained via internet. Concessions for qualifying charities will not apply to licences obtained this way (Note free option via internet). Existing licensees will be granted free replacement lifetime licence."

Can't see how you can read it any other way if you read the full document and not just parts of sentences.
 
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