45 CFR 164.535
§ 164.535 Severability.
United States · 45 CFR — Public Welfare · Status: effective
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- 45 CFR 164.535, § 164.535 Severability, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/218103
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If any provision of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy is held to be invalid or unenforceable facially, or as applied to any person, plaintiff, or circumstance, it shall be construed to give maximum effect to the provision permitted by law, unless such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in which case the provision shall be severable from this part and shall not affect the remainder thereof or the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other dissimilar circumstances.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.