The phrase "act declaring" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a legal or formal context where one is referring to an action that involves making a declaration.
Example: "The act declaring the new policy was signed into law yesterday."
Alternatives: "declaration act" or "proclamation act".
On Thursday, even Mayor Bloomberg got into the act, declaring Rodriguez the greatest economic development project ever to come out of Washington Heights.
Noel Gallagher, the notoriously outspoken Oasis guitarist, criticised the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival yesterday for featuring the American rapper Jay-Z as a headlining act, declaring hip-hop "wrong" for the annual event.
Three years ago, the state passed the Firearms Freedom Act, declaring that any guns manufactured and owned entirely inside the state were off-limits to the reach of federal laws.
Jefferson, who believed that a Congress capable of passing the Alien and Sedition Acts was likely to attempt to push through an act "declaring that the President shall continue in office during life," had little difficulty crediting stories of the most pernicious Federalist schemes.
Nobody remembers this, because, later that year, President Nixon vetoed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, declaring that it "would commit the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing" and undermine "the family-centered approach".
Even UNESCO has gotten in on the act, declaring the Bauhaus buildings of Dessau and Weimar World Heritage sites.
"We must act," declared President Barack Obama in his second inaugural address.
"It's a catastrophic breakdown in the world's collective responsibility to act", declared Oxfam.
"I look like an elephant now doc," the next act declares.
The act declared that the members of labour unions should have "full freedom of association" undisturbed by employers.
Consider the reaction to a lawsuit filed earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union to have part of the U.S.A. Patriot Act declared unconstitutional.
