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A severability section is added to the 2016 Act

To clarify the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, to appropriately limit the application of defenses based on the passage of time and other non-merits defenses to claims under that Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

A severability section is added to the 2016 Act

The document says “shall notWho acts: courtsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“If any provision of this Act, or the application of a provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”

To clarify the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, to appropriately limit the application of defenses based on the passage of time and other non-merits defenses to claims under that Act, Sec. 2

A new section 6, headed Severability, added at the end of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 1621 note). Within that Act, holding one provision invalid, or invalid as applied to a particular person or circumstance, leaves the rest of the Act and the other applications of that provision standing.

What the document actually says

“If any provision of this Act, or the application of a provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”

To clarify the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, to appropriately limit the application of defenses based on the passage of time and other non-merits defenses to claims under that Act, Sec. 2
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If a court says one part of the law is bad, the rest still stands.

What this is about

Laws often carry a rule like this. It keeps one bad part from sinking the whole law.

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