An Act to repeal the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency Act and replace it with a Petroleum Products Consumer Protection Authority charged with three core functions: (i) ensuring fuel quality at retail outlets through random sampling and laboratory testing, (ii) publishing a public daily pump-price index drawn from a representative sample of stations across all 36 states and the FCT, and (iii) handling consumer complaints relating to short measure, adulteration, and false advertising. The new Authority shall have no role in setting prices, which are deregulated. Penalties for adulteration are increased fivefold, and a whistleblower protection scheme is created for filling-station staff who report violations.
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