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operation of that part of the Ordinance
until circumstances permitted its actual
enforcement. The objections in
practice to any system of registration
of muitsai are:-
(a) The practical impossibility of
proving that any particular girl is a
muitsai, except in occasional cases
where the facts are inadvertently
admitted or come to light accidentally.
(b) There would be a great temptation to corruption if a systematic drive of
the Colony for purposes of registration
were attempted.
(c) Very drastic powers would be
required, if registration were to be
made effective, and such powers would
be intensely unpopular.
(d) Registration would be very unsatisfactory, if persons not domiciled
in the Colony were exempted.
(e) The daily ebb and flow of
population across the frontier of Hong
Kong and the constant moving of
population within the Colony present
difficulties which can hardly be
exaggerated. An army of inspectors
with the widest power of entry and
search would be required to enforce
registration and heavy expenditure
would be incurred to little or no
purpose.
(f) The parents of
ad
muitsai are
usually