Birmingham Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act 1929

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1929 c. lxx
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5.] Birmingham [Oh. Ixx.]
Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act, 1929.
CHAPTER lxx.
An Act to empower the lord mayor aldermen and A.D. 1929S
citizens of the city of Birmingham to construct '
works for the improvement of the rivers Rea and
Tame and for other purposes, [10th May 1929.]
W
HEREAS serious flooding is caused in parts of the
city of Birmingham by the overflow of the rivers
Rea and Tame and their tributaries and in order to
prevent such flooding it is expedient to empower the lord
mayor aldermen and citizens of the said city to construct
the river improvement works and other works mentioned
in this Act:
And whereas the construction of the river works
authorised by this Act will benefit the lands adjoining
the same and in proximity thereto and it is expedient
to authorise the imposition of an improvement charge
on such lands:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act be enacted :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament :
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the
Corporation for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and
such estimates are as follows :
The purchase of lands for and the £
execution of the works authorised
by this Act - - - - 1,900,000
[Price 2s. Net.] A I
[Ch. Ixx,] Birmingham [19 & 20
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5.]
Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act, 1929.
A.D.
1929. And whereas the several works included in such
estimates respectively are permanent works and it is
expedient that the cost thereof should be spread over a
term of years : .
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the
Bill for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds
Acts 1872 and 1903 have been observed :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines
and levels of the works authorised by this Act and a
book of referencejto those plans containing the names of
the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and
of the occupiers of the lands required or which may be
taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act
were duly deposited with the clerks of the peace for the
city and for the county of Warwick respectively and are
in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited plans
sections and book of reference :
May it therefore please, Your Majesty that it may-
be enacted and be it enacted by the King's most
Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in
this present Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same as follows (that is to say) :—.
PRELIMINARY.
Short title, 1. This Act may be cited as the Birmingham
Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act 1929.
Incorpora- 2. The following Acts and parts of Acts (so far as
tion of the same are applicable for the purposes and are not
Acts.
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) are hereby
incorporated with this Act (namely):
(1) The Lands Clauses Acts with the following
exception and modification :
(a) Section 127 of the Lands Clauses Con-
solidation Act 1845 is not incorporated with
. this Act;
(b) The bond required by section 85 of the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall
be under the corporate seal of the Corporation
and shall be sufficient without the addition of
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the sureties mentioned in that section j
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5.] Birmingham [Ch. lxx.]
Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act, 1929.
(2) The clauses and provisions of the Railways A.B. 1929.
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 with respect to
the temporary occupation of lands near the
railway during the construction thereof and
in the construction of those provisions " the
railway " shall mean the works authorised by
this Act.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and Interpreta-
expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Acts tlon*
wholly or partially incorporated herewith or by the
Public Health Acts 1875 to 1925 have the same respective
meanings unless there be something in the subject or
context repugnant to such construction.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context
otherwise requires
(a) " The Corporation" means the lord mayor
aldermen and citizens of the city of Birmingham;
(b) " The city " means the city of Birmingham;
(c) " The town clerk " means the town clerk of the
city and includes any person duly authorised to
discharge temporarily the duties of that office;
(d) " The general rate fund" means the general
rate fund of the city;
(e) " The rivers " means the rivers Rea and Tame
and the natural and artificial tributaries
thereof;
(/) " The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands
Clauses Acts as amended by the Acquisition of
Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act 1919;
(g) " The tribunal" means the tribunal or other
authority to whom any question of disputed
purchase money or compensation under this
Act is referred in pursuance of the Acquisition
of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act 1919;
(h) " Telegraphic line " has the same meaning as in
the Telegraph Act 1878.
LANDS.
4.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Cor- Power to
poration may enter upon take appropriate and use all take lands.
or any of the lands shown on the deposited plans and
described in the deposited book of reference which they
may require for the purposes of the works authorised by
this Act or for other the purposes of this Act.
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