Prescribed application form should be collected from the Licence Section and to submit with the following documents:
i. Whether any part of the building, in which the Sarai situated is use as residence or not (YES/NO)
ii. Whether the applicant is ready to perform the duties of a Sarai Keeper as prescribed by Section 7 of the Sarai Act, 1867 (YES)
iii. Whether the applicant is ready to maintain a register of lodger as in Section 5 of the Sarai Act, 1867? (YES)
iv. Whether the applicant is ready to produce a certificate of charter from a Gazetted Officer or not (sec 6 of the act)? (YES)
As per Government Notification No 97-PL/PB/4P-18/11 dated, Kolkata the 5th January, 2012, In exercise of the power conferred by paragraph (3) of section 2 of the Sarais Act, 1867 (22 of 1867), the Governor is pleased hereby to confer on the Commissioner of Police, Bidhannagar, the power to exercise all the functions of Magistrate of the District in respect of the Bidhannagar Metropolitan Area declared as such vide this Department notification No. 93-PL dated. 05/01/2012.
Section 5: Lodgers etc. not to be received in Sarais until registered, - After one month after the giving of such notice to register as this Act provided, the keepers of any Sarai or any other person shall not receive any lodger or allow an person, cattle, sheep, elephant, camel or other animal, or any vehicle to halt or be placed in such Sarai until the same and the name and residence of the keeper there of shall have been registered as by this Act provided.
Section 6: Magistrate may refuse to register keeper not producing certificate of character,- The Magistrate of the Metropolitan Area may if he thinks fit, refuse to register as the keeper of a Sarai a person who dose not produce a certificate of character in such form and signed by such persons the {State Government} shall from time to time direct.
Section 7: Duties of keepers of Sarai. The keepers of a Sarai shall be bound.
(1) When any person in such Sarai is ill of any infections of contagious disease, or dies of such disease, to give immediate notice thereof to the nearest Police Station.
(2) At all times when required by any magistrate of the Metropolitan Area in this behalf to give him free access to the Sarai and allow him to inspect the same at any part thereof .
(3) To thoroughly cleanse the rooms and verandahs, and drains of the sarai and the wells, tanks, or other sources from which water is obtained for the persons or animals using it to the satisfaction of and so often as shall be required by the Magistrate of the Metropolitan Area, or such person as he shall appoint in this behalf.
(4) To remove all noxious vegetation on or near the sarai, and all trees and branches of tree capable of affording to thieves means of entering or leaving the sarai.
(5) To keep the gates, walls, fences, roofs and drains of the sarai in repair.
(6) To provide such number of watchmen as may, in the opinion of the Magistrate of the Metropolitan Area subject to such rules as the state Government may prescribe in this behalf, be necessary for the safety and protection of and animals or behalf, be necessary for the safety and protection of persons or animals or vehicles lodging in halting at or placed in the sarai, and
(7) To exhibit a list a charge for the use of the sarai at place and in such from and languages as the Magistrate of the Metropolitan Area shall from time to direct.
Section 8: Power to order reports from keepers of Sarais.
Section 9: Power to shut up, secure, clear and clean deserted Sarai.
Section 10: Taking down or repairing ruinous Sarai.
Section 11: Sale of materials of ruinous Sarai.
Section 12: Penalty for permitting Sarais to be felting or overgrown.
Section 13: Power for state Government to make regulations.
Section 14: Penalty for infringing Act or regulations.
Section 15: Conviction for third offence to disqualify persons from keeping Sarai.
A notice along with application form is given to register his/ her Sarai as per the Act within a month from the date of receipt of the notice .He/ She is directed to comply with the provisions of the Act and to submit necessary document enlisted below.
The filled up application along with necessary supporting documents be submitted to the office of the Commissioner of Police, Bidhannagar for registering his/her Sarai as per the Act within a month from the date of receipt of the notice.