Broadcasting Act 2009
Restrictions on possession of television set.
142.— (1) Subject to the exceptions mentioned in subsection (3), a person shall not keep or have in his or her possession anywhere in the territory of the State a television set save in so far as such keeping or possession is authorised by a television licence for the time being in force.
(2) A person having possession of a television set under a television licence shall not keep such a television set otherwise than in accordance with the terms and conditions subject to which such licence is expressly, or is by virtue of this Part deemed to have been granted.
(3) This section does not apply to a television set, which is of a class or description for the time being declared by an order of the Minister to be a class or description of television set to which this section is not to apply.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C18
Exemption from the television licensing requirements provided in respect of certain classes of television pursuant to subs. (3) (31.07.2009) by Television Licence (Exemption of Classes of Television Set) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 319 of 2009), art. 3.
3. The following classes of television set are declared to be classes of television set to which section 142 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 (No. 18 of 2009) does not apply, namely—
(a) a non-portable television set capable of exhibiting television broadcasting services distributed by means of the publicly available Internet, and
(b) a portable television set.