Section 580(ii) in Rules under the United Provinces Excise Act, 1910
(ii)No juice from any Tar, Khajur or any other kind of palm tree shall be drawn except in a receptacle. Such receptacle before it is used for drawing and collecting Nira shall be washed with a freshly prepared solution of permanganate of potash and water. After it is so washed it shail be washed again with pure water in order to make it absolutely clean. After the receptacle is washed and rewashed as provided above fresh milk of lime shall be put in such receptacle in the proportion of 3 cubic centimetres for every 900 millilitres of Nira to be drawn therein for the purpose of sterilization.