The phrase "act designed to prevent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legislation, policies, or measures aimed at stopping certain actions or outcomes.
Example: "The new environmental regulations are an act designed to prevent pollution in our waterways."
Alternatives: "measure intended to stop" or "legislation aimed at preventing".
His investigation led to indictments, jail sentences and, ultimately, key New Deal reforms — the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Glass-Steagall Act, designed to prevent the formation of banks too big to fail.
Senator Mark Warner, a prominent figure in tech's role in enabling Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, used the incident to call attention to a piece of bipartisan legislation called the Honest Ads Act, designed to "prevent foreign interference in future elections and improve the transparency of online political advertisements".
Whatever its theological accuracy, that statement was a noble political act designed to prevent reprisals against innocent Muslim Americans.
The health care rules stem from anti-discrimination provisions in the Affordable Care Act, designed to prevent unfair treatment based on sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in June that a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act designed to prevent racial discrimination in certain voting laws was no longer necessary.
"Fundamentally the act was designed to prevent espionage.
As Jane Mayer noted in The New Yorker last week, the act was designed to prevent "classic espionage" and not the release of classified material in a news context.
Rather, conglomeration bred conflicts of interest in Mr. Weill's firms, and others — the very conflicts that the original Glass-Steagall Act was designed to prevent.
The Act is designed to prevent the avoidance of implied terms through exclusion clauses.
This is precisely what the Glass-Steagall Act was designed to prevent -- and did prevent for more than six decades.
According to a Wednesday release from Manchin's office, the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act is designed to prevent convicted criminals and mentally ill individuals from obtaining guns, while maintaining Americans' constitutional right to bear arms.
