The phrase "act does not cover" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a specific act or legislation does not include certain situations, topics, or individuals within its scope.
Example: "The new environmental regulations are beneficial, but the act does not cover emissions from agricultural practices."
Alternatives: "the act excludes" or "the act omits".
The act does not cover meetings abroad with United States officials.
The Zadroga Act does not cover cancers but requires administrators to review research into whether the dust had caused certain cancers.
The National Labor Relations Act does not cover government employees, including graduate students at public universities, but 10 states, including California, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, have given graduate students at their public universities the right to organize.
Writing for the court, Justice Stephen G. Breyer said that the Sherman Antitrust Act does not cover the foreign effects of anticompetitive conduct unless the defendants' domestic behavior can be shown to have contributed to those effects.
But Pincus has little sympathy for Lee, arguing that the Privacy Act does not cover the kind of information that was disclosed to him, and that the substance of what he was told was made public anyway when Lee was indicted.
However, the Act does not cover retrospective research using (coded) data from patient's medical record or patient images.
However, the act doesn't cover air pollution caused by wildfires, and the combination of climate change and continued development in fire-prone areas could negate much of the improvement that it has brought about.
Another flaw in the law is that the Net Act doesn't cover the many sites outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Addressing the agricultural pollution the Clean Water Act doesn't cover has fallen to the states.
The federal Family and Medical Leave Act doesn't cover 40percentt of the workforce.
But the Act doesn't cover all working mothers: the employee must have worked for the employer for a sufficiently lengthy and regular time, and private-sector employers must have at least 50 employees.
