---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1484"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1484"
heading: "Interpretation and administration; other right, duty, privilege, or immunity and other remedy unaffected"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1484"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention"
---

# §1484. Interpretation and administration; other right, duty, privilege, or immunity and other remedy unaffected


This chapter shall be interpreted and administered in a manner consistent with the [convention](/usc/33/1471.md?p=2), the [protocol](/usc/33/1471.md?p=6), and other international law. Except as specifically provided, nothing in this chapter may be interpreted to prejudice any otherwise applicable right, duty, privilege, or immunity or deprive any country or person of any remedy otherwise applicable.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 15, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10; Pub. L. 95–302, § 1(6), June 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 345.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–302 inserted “, the protocol,” after “convention”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 95–302, see section 2 of Pub. L. 95–302, set out as a note under section 1487 of this title.