Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00167:section:304a:p2
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Provision Reference: s 304A (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 850461–851845

(rounding 50 cents upwards).
 (8) The indexation factor for a quarter is the number (worked out to 3 decimal places) worked out by dividing the index number for the previous quarter by the index number for the quarter that immediately preceded the previous quarter.
 (9) If the factor worked out under subsection (8) in relation to a quarter would, if it were worked out to 4 decimal places, end with a number greater than 4, the factor worked out under that subsection in relation to that quarter is taken to be the factor worked out to 3 decimal places and increased by 0.001.
 (10) Subject to subsection (11), if at any time, whether before or after the commencement of this section, the Australian Statistician has published or publishes an index number in respect of a quarter in substitution for an index number previously published by the Australian Statistician in respect of that quarter, the publication of the later index number is to be disregarded for the purposes of this section.
 (11) If at any time, whether before or after the commencement of this section, the Australian Statistician has changed or changes the index reference period for the Consumer Price Index, then, for the purposes of the application of this section after the change took place or takes place, regard is to be had only to the index numbers published in terms of the new index reference period.