C-25.1, r. 6 - Tariff of court costs in penal matters

Section 16 Disposition versions

2012-12-27

16. The costs and fees provided for in this Regulation are adjusted on 1 January of each year based on the same rate as the rate resulting from the application of section 83.3 of the Financial Administration Act (chapter A-6.001).

The costs and fees thus adjusted are reduced to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar less than $0.50; they are increased to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar equal to or greater than $0.50.

Where the costs and fees are reduced to the nearest dollar, the dollar fraction less than $0.50 by which the costs and fees are reduced is deferred until it can form, in a later adjustment, a dollar fraction equal to or greater than $0.50 with one or several other fractions less than $0.50.

The Minister of Justice is to inform the public of the adjustment under this section through the Gazette officielle du Québec or by such other means as the Minister considers appropriate.

O.C. 1412-93, s. 16; O.C. 1163-2012, s. 1.

2012-09-01

16. The costs and fees shall be increased on 1 April 1996 and thereafter every 3 years on 1 April, as follows:

(1)  where the amount of the costs and fees applicable on the preceding 31 March is equal to or greater than $35, it shall be increased on the basis of the cumulative rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada, as determined by Statistics Canada for a 3-year period ending on 31 December of the preceding year;

(2)  where the amount of the costs and fees applicable on the preceding 31 March is less than $35, the increase shall be carried out by applying to the amount of the costs and fees exigible on 1 June 1993 the cumulative rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada, as determined by Statistics Canada, for the period beginning on 1 January of the year preceding the year of coming into force of such provision and ending on 31 December of the year preceding that increase.

The costs and fees indexed in the prescribed manner shall be reduced to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar less than $0.50, they shall be increased to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar equal to or greater than $0.50.

The Minister of Justice shall inform the public, through the Gazette officielle du Québec or by such other means as he considers appropriate, of the indexing calculated under this section.

O.C. 1412-93, s. 16.