Amendments retroactively made - see 29 of 1998 s. 90
(1) This Ordinance shall not apply in respect of any land within a marine park or marine reserve-
(a) subject to subsection (3), held under a Government lease existing before the publication in the Gazette of a notice under section 8(1) in respect of that marine park or marine reserve, as the case may be, until the expiration of such lease; or (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 90)
(b) occupied under a licence or a deed or memorandum of appropriation issued under the Land (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap 28) before the publication in the Gazette of a notice under section 8(1) in respect of that marine park or marine reserve, as the case may be, until the expiration of the validity period of such licence or deed or memorandum of appropriation, (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 90)
and for the purpose of this subsection, a marine park or marine reserve includes a proposed marine park or proposed marine reserve, or a proposed area of extension of a marine park or marine reserve, as the case may be.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to the prejudice of the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance (Cap 313) and the Water Pollution Control Ordinance (Cap 358).
(3) Nothing in subsection (1)(a) shall prevent an order from being made under section 17(1) for the resumption of any land referred to in subsection (1)(a) and this Ordinance shall apply to the land resumed in pursuance of such order.