Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Adjustment for inflation

• 405.1 (1) The inflation adjustment factor applicable to the limits established under subsections 404.1(1) and 405(1) and paragraph 405.3(2)(b), in effect for a period of one year beginning on each April 1, is a fraction with

  • (a) a numerator that is the annual average Consumer Price Index, as published by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act, for the calendar year immediately before that date, calculated on the basis of 1992 being equal to 100; and

  • (b) a denominator that is 119.0, which is the annual average Consumer Price Index, as published by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act, for 2002, calculated on the basis of 1992 being equal to 100.

• Marginal note:Adjustment

  (2) The amounts set out in subsections 404.1(1) and 405(1) and paragraph 405.3(2)(b) shall be multiplied by the annual inflation adjustment factor referred to in subsection (1) and the resulting amounts apply

  • (a) in the cases referred to in paragraphs 404.1(1)(a) and 405(1)(a) and subparagraph 405.3(2)(b)(i), during the calendar year that commences in that year;

  • (b) in the cases referred to in paragraphs 404.1(1)(b) and 405(1)(b) and subparagraph 405.3(2)(b)(ii), with respect to an election whose writ is issued during that year; and

  • (c) in the case referred to in paragraph 405(1)(c), with respect to a leadership contest that begins during that year.

  The resulting amounts shall be rounded to the nearest hundred dollars.

• Marginal note:Publication

  (3) Before each April 1, the Chief Electoral Officer shall cause to be published in the Canada Gazette the amounts applicable from that date.