The Victorian Government has set a deadline of 10 March 2026 for service stations to live report their fuel prices to Service Victoria within 30 minutes of prices changing.

With just weeks until the deadline, Service Victoria’s ‘Servo Saver’ fuel finder app feature still lists out-of-date prices and missing servos, despite promising real-time data months ago.

Website pages and social media posts from Service Victoria have been describing Servo Saver as having “up-to-date fuel prices from every fuel station across Victoria” since last year.

In further conflicting information, some of Service Victoria’s online information for fuel retailers currently says that from 6 August 2025 reporting fuel prices through Service Victoria is mandatory.

Drive has identified multiple service stations that are still missing from the Service Victoria app and many that list prices that are days or weeks old.

As part of the Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, which passed parliament on November 25 last year, fuel providers will have to report changes in their fuel prices “as soon as practicable, but not more than 30 minutes, after the price is increased or decreased in the fuel pump display,”.

The new law also includes rules that require Victorian service stations to cap fuel prices each day.

Fuel providers must report by 2:00 pm each day the maximum price they will sell each fuel type for on the following day, with the following ‘day’ starting at 6:00 am and lasting 24 hours.

Over the 24-hour period, service stations in Victoria can then decrease the price for fuel throughout the day. However, once the service station has dropped the price that day, it cannot increase it again.

The law stipulates that: “A confirmed fuel retailer must not offer a type of fuel for sale to retail customers at a price that is higher than any price at which the retailer has previously offered the type of fuel on the same day.”

Victoria is the last remaining Australian state not to have a live fuel price reporting service.

Beginning with Western Australia launching its FuelWatch service in 2001, over the last two decades every other state has steadily introduced some form of mandatory fuel price reporting.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has recently published extensive details about the new rules for service stations here.

You can read more of Drive’s reporting on the new law here.

The Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 can be read here.

Extracted in full from:  https://www.drive.com.au/news/victorian-petrol-price-app-still-inconsistent-with-data-deadline-looming/

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