Where the marriage record is kept by a French authority, that authority shall mention in the margin of that record, at the request of the spouses or of one of them, the record designating the law applicable to the matrimonial property regime, publication of which is provided for in second paragraph of article 1397-3 of the Civil Code.
In the absence of a marriage record kept by a French authority, and if the record designating the law applicable to the matrimonial property regime has been drawn up in France in authentic form or if one of the spouses is French, the said record or the certificate issued by the person competent to draw it up is, at the request of the spouses or of one of them, entered for safekeeping in the annexed civil register referred to in Article 4-1 of Decree No 65-422 of 1 June 1965 creating a central civil status service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.