Birmingham Corporation (Rivers Improvement) Act 1929
CHAPTER lxx. An Act to empower the lord mayor aldermen and 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.]

WHEREAS 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 ...