FORM N-U

Licence to tap Neera-producing Trees and draw Neera therefrom for Domestic Consumption

(No fee leviable)

Licence is hereby granted under and subject to the provisions of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 and the rules, regulations and orders made there under and the conditions of this licence to Shri (herein after called 'The licensee") residing at authorising him during the period commencing from to (both days inclusive) to tap for and draw neera from the trees specified in the Schedule herein after appended (herein after referred to as "the said trees") growing within the limits of the village of in the ,[taluka/ tahsil] of and in the Survey Number specified in the said Schedule fbr the purpose of using the neera for domestic consumption only by the licensee and the persons of his household.

This licence is granted subject to the following conditions, namely;

Conditions

Each of the said trees hereby licensed to be tapped shall be marked and numbered by the licensee at his own expense in the manner specified in the Bombay Neera Rules, 1951. The licensee shall not tap or cause to be tapped any of the said trees or draw or cause to be drawn neera therefrom, until the said trees shall have been marked and numbered as aforesaid.

The licensee shall not tap, or cause to be tapped or draw neera from any trees not licensed to be tapped by him. Juice from any coconut, brab, date or any kind of palm tree shall not be drawn except in a receptacle. Such receptacle before it is used for drawing and collecting neera shall be washed with a freshly prepared solution of permanganate of potash and water. After it is so washed it shall 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 fbr every 900 ml. of neera to be drawn there in.

Explanation.—In this condition—
1. "milk of lime" means solution of water and pulp of quick-lime in the proportion of 4:1; and
2. "pulp of quicklime" means the pulpy precipitate obtained by the gradual addition of water to quicklime.
The licensee shall convey the entire quantity of the neera drawn by him under this licence to his place of residence by a direct route. The licensee shall not draw neera from the said trees ¹befbre 4.00 a.m.¹ or after sunset and shall not convery the neera from the said trees after sunset. The licensee shall not convey of allow to be conveyed any neera drawn under this licence, to any place other than his place of residence. He shall use such neera only for the purpose of domestic consumption and shall not sell or supply neera to others. The unconsumed balance of neera may be used for the manufacture of gur or any other article which is not an intoxicant before it is fermented. Neera which is fermented shall be destroyed forthwith. No Neera shall be kept till the day following that on which it is drawn unless it is boiled, provided that no such boiled neera shall be kept for more than 24 hours.