The phrase "a competent authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an official body or organization that has the power to make decisions or enforce regulations in a specific area.
Example: "The application must be submitted to a competent authority for approval before proceeding."
Alternatives: "an authorized body" or "a qualified agency".
His insurmountable problem is finding a competent authority to whom to delegate this task.
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a wise man, but in recent times no one in India has called him a "competent authority".
Even Cec Linder in "Goldfinger" (1964), who rendered him as a bland, middle-aged businessman with fedora and gray suit, projected a competent authority.
Judge Phillips, who voted with the majority, said the question "has not been easy to resolve," but the court majority's finding that the Swedish prosecutor was a competent authority made the extradition request lawful.
A person can only be definitively classified as trafficked once his or her experience has been assessed and a competent authority – in Ireland a senior police officer – has ruled.
The rules themselves are subject to formal requirements, designed to further restrict inconsistent application: The laws must be public; they must have been properly enacted by a competent authority; they must not be retroactive; and it must be possible to comply with them.
Typically, these countries establish laws and regulations that are consistent with the risk assessment guidance provided in the Protocol, as well as a national competent authority charged with ultimate responsibility for regulation of transgenic organisms.
A further important finding is that graduates from medical schools in countries without an Australian Medical Council-designated competent authority (countries other than Australia, UK, Canada, US, New Zealand and Ireland, which we term 'other' countries) had a substantially (1.45 times) increased risk of leaving a family physician appointment in rural NSW compared with Australian graduates.
* ISPs and forum hosts – 'intermediaries' – should not be forced to take down material without a determination by a court or competent authority that the content is defamatory.
The proposals include: ISPs and forum hosts – 'intermediaries' - should not be forced to take down material without an instruction from a court or competent authority.
We therefore support the call for an innocent dissemination defence, that ISPs should only be forced to remove defamatory material that has been decreed defamatory by a court or competent authority, and to bring libel law into the twenty-first century through the creation of a single publication rule".
