Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
§ 391. Separability clause
Statutory text
If any provision of this chapter is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the chapter and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 75–675 § 1001 · 52 Stat. 1040
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 391
June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1001, formerly § 901, 52 Stat. 1059
Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1001, formerly § 901, 52 Stat. 1059Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 901. separability clause If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional, Separability clause. or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the Act and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
1938–2009 · 2 acts
- 1938June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1001, formerly § 901, 52 Stat. 1059
- 2009renumbered § 1001, Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2), , 123 Stat. 1784.
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(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1001, formerly § 901, 52 Stat. 1059; renumbered § 1001, Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2), , 123 Stat. 1784.)