38. Notwithstanding section 37, when the client and the firm agree to apply to a contract made before 24 December 1984 the percentage method in replacement of the objective cost method prescribed in the contract, the replacement may not in any case have the effect of paying to the firm fees whose distribution between the design and the carrying out will exceed 100%.
O.C. 2402-84, s. 38; O.C. 196-2023.