39. Despite section 38, the client and the firm may agree to apply the provisions of this Regulation, on the date of its coming into force or at any later date, to a contract made before 26 August 1987; in such a case, the contract is governed by the whole of the Regulation and not only by certain parts of it.
D. 1235-87 (French only), a. 39; O.C. 195-2023.