Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers) Regulations 2025
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Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers) Regulations 2025
S.R. No. 74/2025
Version incorporating amendments as at
10 March 2026
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation Page
1 Objective 1
2 Authorising provision 1
3 Commencement 1
4 Revocation 1
5 Prescription of Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers 2
Schedule 1—Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers 3
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Endnotes 5
1 General information 5
2 Table of Amendments 7
3 Explanatory details 8
Version No.002
Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers) Regulations 2025
S.R. No. 74/2025
Version incorporating amendments as at
10 March 2026
Reg. 1 substituted by S.R. No. 152/2025 reg. 6.
1 Objective
The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe a code of practice to regulate the display of fuel prices on price boards at service stations.
2 Authorising provision
These Regulations are made under section 232 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012.
3 Commencement
These Regulations come into operation on 6 August 2025.
4 Revocation
The Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Price Boards) Regulations 2016[1] are revoked.
Reg. 5 (Heading) amended by S.R. No. 152/2025 reg. 7(1).
Reg. 5 amended by S.R. No. 152/2025 reg. 7(2).
5 Prescription of Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers
For the purposes of Part 6.3 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012, the code of practice set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations is the Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers.
Sch. 1 substituted by S.R. No. 152/2025 reg. 8.
Schedule 1—Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers
Regulation 5
1 Citation
This code of practice may be cited as the Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers.
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2 Purpose of code
The purpose of this code of practice is to regulate the display by fuel retailers of fuel prices on price boards at service stations.
3 Definitions
In this code of practice—
discounted fuel price, in relation to a type of fuel, means the price per litre at which fuel of that type is available to consumers after any discount (whether by a voucher, discount rate, reward scheme or any other means) is applied;
price board means a board, sign or notice at a service station that displays information regarding the price of types of fuel offered for retail sale at the service station.
4 Price board not to display discounted fuel price
A fuel retailer must not display the discounted fuel price for a type of fuel on any price board.
5 Price board may display information about discounts
A fuel retailer must not display information about a discount or special offer for a type of fuel on a price board unless the normal fuel price for that type of fuel is displayed on the price board.
6 Display of prices on price board and fuel pump display
(1) If a fuel retailer increases the normal fuel price for a type of fuel, the fuel retailer must change the price displayed on any price board to reflect the increase in price before, or at the same time as, changing the price displayed for that type of fuel on any fuel pump display.
(2) If a fuel retailer decreases the normal fuel price for a type of fuel, the fuel retailer must change the price displayed on any price board to reflect the decrease in price after, or at the same time as, changing the price displayed on any fuel pump display for that type of fuel.
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Endnotes
1 General information
See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.
The Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Price Reporting) Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 74/2025 were made on 5 August 2025 by the Governor in Council under section 232 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012, No. 21/2012 and came into operation on 6 August 2025: regulation 3.
The Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Price Reporting) Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 5 August 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).
The title of this Statutory Rule was changed from the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Price Reporting) Regulations 2025 to the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers) Regulations 2025 by regulation 5 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice and Infringements for Fuel Retailers) Amendment Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 152/2025.
INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)
Style changes
Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.
References to ILA s. 39B
Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.
Interpretation
As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:
• Headings
All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).
• Examples, diagrams or notes
All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).
• Punctuation
All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).
• Provision numbers
All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).
• Location of "legislative items"
A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.
• Other material
Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).
2 Table of Amendments
This publication incorporates amendments made to the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Retailers) Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.