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Separability clause.
SEC. 370. Separability clause. — If any clause sentence, paragraph, or part of this Code shall be adjudged by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of said Code, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy.
Effective date.
SEC. 371. Effective date. — When section 187 of this Code shall have been approved by the President of the United States, as provided in section two, subsection (a), paragraph nine of the Act of Congress of March twenty- four, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled, "An Act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," such fact shall be made known by proclamation of the President of the Philippines, and said section 187 of this Code shall take effect on the date of said proclamation. Except as otherwise specifically provided, this Code shall take effect on July first; nineteen hundred and thirty-nine. Approved: June 15, 1939.
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