A number of fuel nozzles are not compliant with national Trade Measurement Legislation, according to a report by the National Measurement Institute (NMI).
The increase in non-compliance was first observed in the 2016-17 financial year and has continued to grow in subsequent years – to the point where the percentage of non-compliant dispensers detected in 2018-19 was approximately double the levels observed four years earlier.
For the past 18 months, ACAPMA’s worked with NMI to understand the issue in detail, and what the factors are that are contributing to it.
The NMI estimates that the extent of short filling equates to motorists paying between $5 million and $15 million for fuel they didn’t receive.
NMI General Manager of Legal Metrology, Bill Loizides, says that the NMI will be undertaking an intensive retail fuel audit programme, or Regulatory Blitz, during the second half of March 2020.
The blitz will involve the inspections of around 600 sites nationally and would include retail sites where breaches have been observed in recent years.
This is an edited version of an article originally circulated by ACAPMA.
