3. The number of offences referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 2 for a contractor that has reported, as an employer, hours of work to the Commission de la construction du Québec is established on the basis of the number of hours reported during the reference period and is(1) 3 offences for a number of hours of work less than 50,000;
(2) 4 offences for a number of hours of work equal to or greater than 50,000 but less than 100,000;
(3) 5 offences for a number of hours of work equal to or greater than 100,000.
The number of offences is 3 in the case of a contractor that has not reported any hour of work to the Commission during the reference period.
The reference period corresponds to 12 monthly consecutive periods of work ending on the last Saturday in August of the calendar year prior to the year in which the last considered conviction occurred.