Construction; severability

Any provision of this Act or an amendment made by this Act held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such holding shall be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be deemed severable from this Act or the Act amended, respectively and shall not affect the remainder of this Act or the Act amended, respectively, or the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.