NUMBERS

(Version anglaise seulement. Voir le Guide fédéral de jurilinguistique législative française, REPRÉSENTATION DES NOMBRES.)

Numbers 10 and up are expressed in figures; numbers under 10 are written out. This applies to cardinal and ordinal numbers.

There are three exceptions to this rule:

• at the beginning of a sentence, numbers are always written out; 
• when a number is used with a unit of measure or proportion represented by a symbol or abbreviation (e.g., $, %, kg, m), figures are always used; and 
• when there is a series of numbers, one of which is 10 or more, figures are always used.

Part 4 – Table of contents