---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000h–6"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000h–6"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000h-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter IX — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2000h–6. Separability


If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title XI, § 1106, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 268.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act and the Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88–352, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 241, known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is classified principally to subchapters II to IX of this chapter (§ 2000a et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2000a of this title and Tables.