15 U.S.C. § 78bbb — Application of Securities Exchange Act of 1934

This section links this chapter to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which the text calls the "1934 Act." The rule is simple: the 1934 Act's provisions apply to this chapter too. The only exception is when this chapter specifically says something different. The section describes this link in a particular way. It says this chapter should be treated as if it were an amendment to the 1934 Act — as if it had actually been written into the 1934 Act as one of its own sections. In practice, this means courts and regulators reading this chapter should treat it as part of the 1934 Act's overall framework, not as a separate, standalone law. Any rule, procedure, or definition that appears in the 1934 Act carries over to this chapter automatically, unless this chapter states its own different rule on that specific point. This keeps the two laws working together as one connected system, instead of two laws that could conflict with each other or leave gaps between them.