---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3316"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3316"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3316"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Taiwan Relations"
---

# §3316. Severability


If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the application of such provision to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–8, § 17, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 21.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective as of January 1, 1979, see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.