The phrase "according to this act" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referencing a specific law or regulation in legal or formal contexts.
Example: "According to this act, all employees must receive a minimum wage."
Alternatives: "pursuant to this act" or "in accordance with this act".
According to this act, a two-year course in minor schools was to be started in every district town and a five-year course in major schools in every provincial town.
According to this act, chicken embryo is not definite as the animal.
According to this act, there should be no advertisement of tobacco products in any form.
According to this Act, the mother of any progeny resulted after IVF is that woman who carried the pregnancy, rejecting, in this way, surrogate motherhood activities.
According to this act, patient navigation was envisioned as an effective intervention to improve health outcomes by reducing delays to quality care through the use of a person guide throughout the healthcare system [ 13].
If these people do not want their, their children's, the country's and the democracy's future to be blocked... they should act according to this fact".
According to this view, humans act contrary to nature when they act contrary to the prescripts of right reason.
Because judges tend to have a strong sense of the relative seriousness of offences, and sentence according to this framework, the act had the effect of raising penalties all round.
According to this conception, "the act of knowing has to depict (abbilden) a reality independent from its activity of representing (vorstellen)" (Rickert 1921a, 119).
According to this view, art acts as an emotional cathartic and achieves a "purgation of the emotions".
According to this theory, small acts of deviance -- littering, graffiti, broken windows -- will, if ignored, escalate into more serious crime.
