Association Link specifies that if both navigationLink and associationLink are represented, for example in the odata.metadata=full case, that the associationLink MUST immediately precede the navigationLink.

Example 10 however shows two cases were both links are represented however they are in the opposite order of what is specified in 8.2.

Unless there is a specific reason why associationLink MUST precede the navigationLink, presuming an order needs to be enforced in the first place, I'd propose to have navigationLink precede the associationLink, as associationLink builds on, if following convention, the navigationLink.