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Weights and Measures Regulations

Version of section 153 from 2017-02-13 to 2024-08-18:


 The registration of monetary value calculated by an electronic computing machine is to be rounded to the nearest cent as follows:

  • (a) when the digit next beyond the second decimal is less than 5, the second decimal is to be kept unchanged;

  • (b) when the digit next beyond the second decimal is greater than 5, or is 5 followed by one or more digits other than zeros, the second decimal is to be increased by one; and

  • (c) when the digit next beyond the second decimal is 5 and is followed by no other digits or by one or more zeros, the second decimal is to be kept unchanged if it is even and be increased by one if it is odd.

  • SOR/2012-28, s. 5
  • SOR/2017-17, s. 3

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