5. The fees prescribed in this Regulation shall be indexed on 1 April of each year on the basis of the cumulative rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada, as determined by Statistics Canada, for the preceding period from 1 January to 31 December.
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 result of the indexation calculated under this section shall be published in Part 1 of the Gazette officielle du Québec.