13. The annual duties provided for in this Regulation shall be indexed on 1 January of each year on the basis of the rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada, as determined by Statistics Canada for the 12-month period ending on 30 September of the preceding year.
The annual duties 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 shall inform the public of the indexing calculated under this section, through Part 1 of the Gazette officielle du Québec and, where he considers it appropriate, by any other means.
O.C. 601-93, s. 13; O.C. 441-2008, s. 4.