Severability

17.1. If any provision of this rule, or the application thereof, is for any reason adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment may not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this rule, but shall be confined in its operation to the provision thereof directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered, and the applicability of the provision to other persons or circumstances may not be affected thereby.

17.2. If any provision of this rule, or the application thereof, is made invalid or inapplicable by reason of the repeal or any other invalidation of any statute therein addressed or referred to, such invalidation or inapplicability may not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this rule, but shall be confined in its operation to the provision thereof directly involved with, pertaining to, addressing, or referring to the repealed or invalidated statute, and the application of the provision with regard to other portions of this rule or in other instances not affected by any such repealed or invalid statute may not be abrogated or diminished in any way.