---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9596"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9596"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9596"
units:
  - "Chapter 120 — Minority Business Development"
  - "Subchapter VII — Administrative Powers of the Agency; Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §9596. Separability


If a provision of this chapter, or the application of a provision of this chapter to any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) 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](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) 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](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment is rendered.

## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this division”, meaning div. K of Pub. L. 117–58, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1445, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of division K to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9501 of this title and Tables.