<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id1bdc6af8-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41" identifier="/us/usc/t2/s454"><num value="454">§ 454.</num><heading> Partial invalidity</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id1bdc6af9-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41">(<ref href="/us/pl/92/225/s404">Pub. L. 92–225, title IV, § 404</ref>, <date date="1972-02-07">Feb. 7, 1972</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/86/20">86 Stat. 20</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<heading class="centered smallCaps">References in Text</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">This Act, referred to in text, means the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, as defined by, <ref href="/us/usc/t2/s431">section 431 of this title</ref>.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="separability" id="id1bdc6afc-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Severability</heading><p><ref href="/us/pl/107/155/s401">Pub. L. 107–155, title IV, § 401</ref>, <date date="2002-03-27">Mar. 27, 2002</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/116/112">116 Stat. 112</ref>, provided that: <quotedContent origin="/us/pl/107/155/s401">“If any provision of this Act [see Short Title of 2002 Amendment note set out under <ref href="/us/usc/t2/s431">section 431 of this title</ref>] or amendment made by this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.”</quotedContent>
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