The phrase "act obligates" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey that a specific act imposes an obligation, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The new law act obligates all businesses to comply with environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "law requires" or "act mandates".
U.S. before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims was whether, regardless of the funding lapse, the Fair Labor Standards Act obligated the government to pay the minimum wage — as well as overtime pay, if applicable — to those it kept on the job during the October shutdown.
The court ruled in April 2007 that the Clean Air Act obligated the EPA to regulate any type of air pollution that "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare," opening the door to the limits on greenhouse gases.
In a previous study we demonstrated that the Austrian new legal act obligating nursing homes to report chemical restraints could not be executed due to lack of reporting standards on chemical restraints [ 23].
While the free speech argument is relevant, critics are also raising the issue of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act, which obligates schools to prevent discrimination.
In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which obligated the federal government to start taking control of spent fuel by 1998.
I'm bound irrevocably to that terrible act, and obligated to the human being I committed it against, in a way that feels separate from my punishment.
Conyers' proposed Full Employment Federal Reserve Act would obligate the Fed to define full employment as a maximum unemployment rate of 4percentt and "a labor market in which median wages are rising with worker productivity, job seekers can find work, and involuntary part-time work is at a minimum".
J-proteins, a prototypical molecular chaperone family, act as obligate cochaperone partners of the Hsp70 chaperone to participate in a variety of cellular processes.
bHLH proteins act as obligate dimers binding DNA through composite basic domains to regulate the transcription of target genes containing E-boxes (CANNTG) in their promoters.
