UK Offence Report

The Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025

UK Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 1356 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
17 December 2025
In force from
Not determined
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Miscellaneous
Made under
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations establish an open data scheme under Part 1 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) in relation to the price of motor fuel. The scheme will be administered by a person appointed by the Secretary of State, known as the aggregator (Part 2). A person who offers petrol or diesel for retail sale in the United Kingdom (“motor fuel trader”) is under a duty to register with the aggregator by providing the information in Schedule 1, which includes the price at which a litre of each different grade of motor fuel is offered for sale at the person’s petrol filling stations (Part 3). Motor fuel traders must then notify the aggregator of any changes to that selling price within 30 minutes of the change (Part 4). The aggregator must process the information provided and make the “price information” (that is, the unique registration number of a petrol filling station and the information in paragraphs 1 to 10 of Schedule 1 relating to it) available to a person who registers with the aggregator for that purpose. The price information is to be made available at all times by means of an application programming interface, and twice a day in an electronic document. The price information can be withheld if recipients do not comply with standards set by the aggregator in relation to the accessing and use of the information (Part 5). Part 6 confers monitoring powers on the aggregator and investigatory powers on the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), which is the body responsible for enforcing compliance with the scheme. Part 7 enables the CMA to impose financial penalties on a motor fuel trader which provides false or misleading information in response to a request, or fails to comply with requirements imposed by or under the Regulations. Maximum penalties are determined by reference to the worldwide turnover of the undertaking (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Competition Act 1998 (c. 41)) which the motor fuel trader constitutes or of which it forms part. Part 7 also provides for a criminal offence where a person provides false or misleading information in response to a request or does, or omits to do, a thing, including falsification, which prevents the CMA or the aggregator from accessing information, documents, equipment or other material. Part 8 provides for appeals against financial penalties and Part 9 includes a duty on the Secretary of State to review the Regulations. A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 3 - 8 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH, and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

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