5. The fees prescribed in paragraph 1 and 2 of section 4 shall be indexed on 1 April of each year on the basis of the rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada for the period ending on 31 December of the preceding year, as determined by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. S-19).
The 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 fees thus indexed shall have effect from 1 April.
The Minister shall inform the public of the results of the annual indexation by a notice published in the Gazette officielle du Québec or by such other means as he may consider appropriate.