If any of the provisions of this Code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application of this Code which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Code are severable.

1 Guam Code Ann. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CH. 7 CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CODE

SOURCE: Identical to 8 Guam Code Ann. § 1.05, 9 Guam Code Ann. § 1.12 and similar to former
Govt. Code. § 19.

COMMENT: While this Section has appeared only in the codes cited above, court decisions have assumed its existence with respect to all codes and laws of Guam unless there were special circumstances indicating that the provisions in question were not severable. See People v. Camacho, Guam Supreme Court Crim. Case #4F-75 (1975). In this, the only decision of the Guam Supreme Court, the Court found that because the appointment power of the Special Prosecutor was invalid, the exercise of the powers by him was invalid and that the first was inseparable from the whole scheme of the statute. Thus, the whole Act and indictments brought under the Act were held invalid.