---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1732"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1732"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1732"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — National Housing"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1732. Separability


If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1934, ch. 847, title V, § 513A, formerly § 513, 48 Stat. 1265; renumbered Pub. L. 98–479, title II, § 204(a)(19), Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2232.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### References in Other Laws

Pub. L. 98–479, title II, § 204(a)(19), Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2232, provided in part that: “Any reference in any law, regulation, order, document, record, or other paper of the United States to the section redesignated in this paragraph [this section] hereby is deemed to refer to section 513A of the National Housing Act [this section].”