---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 17a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "17a"
heading: "Separability of 1936 amendment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/17a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §17a. Separability of 1936 amendment


If any provision of the act of June 15, 1936, ch. 545, 49 Stat. 1491, which amends this chapter, or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/7/1a.md?p=38) or circumstances is held invalid, the provisions of the section of this chapter which is amended by such provision of said act shall apply to such [person](/usc/7/1a.md?p=38) or circumstances. No proceeding shall be abated by reason of any amendment to this chapter made by said act but shall be disposed of pursuant to said act.


## Source credit

(June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 12, 49 Stat. 1501.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Commodity Exchange Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

For effective date of section, see section 13 of act June 15, 1936, set out as an Effective Date of 1936 Amendment note under section 1 of this title.