The phrase "act of devolution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the transfer of power or authority from a central government to a local or regional government.
Example: "The act of devolution allowed the regional government to make decisions that better reflect the needs of its citizens."
Alternatives: "process of devolution" or "devolutionary act".
He is also the man who against the odds delivered the final act of devolution – the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont from London – and is still the province's most powerful politician.
Within the space of 24 hours on the same floor of the same Belfast riverside hotel this week, two members of the House of Lords inadvertently created further momentum towards the final act of devolution in Northern Ireland.
Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, heralded it as having "the potential to be the greatest act of devolution there has ever been in the history of the NHS".
The act of creating devolution itself was a response to a renaissance of popular Welshness, he says.
Before the 1997 general election, both parties had committed themselves to the incorporation of the European convention on human rights into British law, to a Freedom of Information Act and to devolution of powers to Scotland and to a lesser extent Wales.
At first sight, the Human Rights Act and devolution statutes of Blair's first term did more to clip the wings of Britain's pre-democratic parliamentary monarchy than anything since the arrival of manhood suffrage and partial female suffrage in 1918.
The Human Rights Act and devolution were part of John Smith's legacy.
In Wales, the consequent process of devolution began with the Government of Wales Act 1998, which created the National Assembly for Wales.
He said he agreed with Labour MP and shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex, who set out four areas where the two parties agreed with each other - "decarbonisation of the electricity supply", the Human Rights Act, regional devolution, and Europe.
He said Labour's Scotland Act was a "very bad bill" because it did not address the impact of devolution on the rest of the UK.
Under the terms of the Scotland Act of 1998, which paved the way for devolution, the Scottish government can pursue its own policies in a broad range of areas: education, health, agriculture, the environment, law and order, transportation, the arts.
