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Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act › Section 5

Severability

Section 5 · Sec. 5 ·

What this chapter is about

This part says the law holds up if one piece falls. A court may strike one piece. The rest still stands.

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The rest of the Act survives if a provision falls

The document says “shall not”Who acts: Federal courtsHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says

“If any provision of this Act, or an amendment made by this Act, is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, the remaining provisions of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be affected.”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 5

Section 5 is a severability clause. If a provision of the Act, or an amendment the Act makes, is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, the remaining provisions and amendments are not affected.

What the document actually says

“If any provision of this Act, or an amendment made by this Act, is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, the remaining provisions of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be affected.”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 5
That sentence, in plain words

If one part of this law is struck down, the rest keeps working.

What this is about

A court may find one piece bad. That does not knock out the whole law.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one thing the section does: it keeps the rest of the Act standing if part of it is struck.

Nothing else is in the section.

A severability clause sets no duty and creates no offense. It speaks only to what happens if a court holds some other part of the Act unenforceable or invalid.