5.3. The fees provided for in this Regulation and the amount of the franchise provided for in section 3 shall be indexed on a 1 April of each year on the basis of the rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada for the 12-month period ending on 30 September of the preceding year, as determined by Statistics Canada.
The fees thus indexed shall be rounded off as follows:(1) where the amount is less than or equal to $1, it shall be increased or decreased to the nearest hundredth of a dollar;
(2) where the amount is greater than $1 but less than or equal to $10, it shall be increased or decreased to the nearest multiple of $0.05;
(3) where the amount is greater than $10 but less than or equal to $50, it shall be increased or decreased to the nearest multiple of $0.25.
The Minister responsible for the reform of Democratic Institutions and Access to information shall inform the public, through the Gazette officielle du Québec, of the indexing calculated under this section.