15 USC § 9596 - Separability

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s9596"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 9596 - Separability"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "9596"
section_name: "Separability"
chapter_number: 120
chapter_name: "MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS OF THE AGENCY; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 117–58, div. K, title VII, § 100706, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1467.)"
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# § 9596. Separability

If a provision of this chapter, or the application of a provision of this chapter to any person or circumstance, is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment—

**(1)** shall not affect, impair, or invalidate—

**(A)** any other provision of this chapter; or

**(B)** the application of this chapter to any other person or circumstance; and

**(2)** shall be confined in its operation to—

**(A)** the provision of this chapter with respect to which the judgment is rendered; or

**(B)** the application of the provision of this chapter to each person or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment is rendered.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 117–58, div. K, title VII, § 100706, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1467.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

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