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the guardianship of such girls are clearly set
out in the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance.
The Governor further states that there is no
evidence to show that adoption is being used as
a fiction to evade responsibilities imposed
by the laws regarding mui tsai.
5. Further, it must be remembered
that registration of mui tsai is now closed,
and that when an unregistered mui tsai is
discovered, her registration is not permitted.
The employer is prosecuted, and the girl
is disposed of in such a way as appears to
be in her best interests.
That is
possible, because it is the declared
policy of the Government to abolish the mui tsai
custom, but it would probably not be
possible to abolish altogether the
practice of adoption. If registration
of adopted daughters were introduced,
it might have to be continued indefinitely,
and the Hong Kong Government is not satisfied
that it would be the best way to deal
with