---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 5374"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "5374"
heading: "Rule of construction"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/5374"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Financial Stability"
  - "Part C — Additional Board of Governors Authority for Certain Nonbank Financial Companies and Bank Holding Companies"
---

# §5374. Rule of construction


No regulation or standard imposed under this subchapter may be construed in a manner that would lessen the stringency of the requirements of any applicable [primary financial regulatory agency](/usc/12/5301.md?p=12) or any other Federal or [State](/usc/12/5301.md?p=16) [agency](/usc/12/1422.md?p=12) that are otherwise applicable. This subchapter, and the rules and regulations or orders prescribed pursuant to this subchapter, do not divest any such [agency](/usc/12/1422.md?p=12) of any authority derived from any other applicable law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–203, title I, § 176, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1442.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 111–203, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1391, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.