33 U.S.C. § 2751: Savings provision

Summary

Treat any reference to a law replaced by this Act as pointing to the matching part of the new Act. Orders, rules, or regulations that were in effect under the old law keep working under the new law until they are changed or replaced. Don’t try to interpret the law based on its title or heading. Rights, duties, penalties, and court cases that arose before August 18, 1990 stay governed by the law in effect before that date, unless this part says otherwise. Except as this Act says, it does not change admiralty and maritime law or the power of U.S. district courts over civil admiralty and maritime cases, and people keep any other remedies they had.

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(a)Cross-references

A reference to a law replaced by this Act, including a reference in a regulation, order, or other law, is deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of this Act.

(b)Continuation of regulations

An order, rule, or regulation in effect under a law replaced by this Act continues in effect under the corresponding provision of this Act until repealed, amended, or superseded.

(c)Rule of construction

An inference of legislative construction shall not be drawn by reason of the caption or catch line of a provision enacted by this Act.

(d)Actions and rights

Nothing in this Act shall apply to any rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before August 18, 1990, except as provided by this section, and shall be adjudicated pursuant to the law applicable on the date prior to August 18, 1990.

(e)Admiralty and maritime law

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act does not affect—

(1)admiralty and maritime law; or

(2)the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States with respect to civil actions under admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 101–380, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 484, known as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2701 of this title and Tables.

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