
1 
This Act may be cited as the Birmingham City Council Act 1991.
2 
In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise requires—
 “Cannon Hill House” means Cannon Hill House and its immediately surrounding land in the city shown on the signed map, being the area within the inner edge of the red line on that map;
 “charity” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act 1960;
 “the signed map” means the map signed in triplicate by Lord Aberdare, Chairman of the Committee of the House of Lords to whom the Bill for this Act was referred, one copy of which has been deposited at each of the following offices:—
(a) the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords;
(b) the Private Bill Office, House of Commons; and
(c) the office of the Chief Executive of the Birmingham City Council.
3 

(1) Notwithstanding the terms of section 85 of the West Midlands County Council Act 1980, the Council may—
(a) dispose of an estate or interest in all or part of Cannon Hill House to an educational charity; or
(b) appropriate Cannon Hill House for the purposes of its functions with respect to education.
(2) In disposing of an estate or interest in all or part of Cannon Hill House under this section the Council may do so for a consideration less than the best that can reasonably be obtained.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that nothing in the said section 85 affects or has at any time affected the operation of the deed of release dated 12th December 1979 and made between Charles Mortimer Tollemache Smith-Ryland of the one part and the Council of the other part.