Enforcement Act of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code Article 24

The validity of a lease contract which was made before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code. If the period of the lease mentioned in the preceding paragraph is fixed in the contract, such period shall be followed. But if the remainder of the period, reckoning from the date of the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code is longer than that provided by Article 449 of the Civil Code, the provisions of Article 449 of the Civil Code shall be applied as from the date of their coming force.