The phrase "act of official" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "act of an official"? If this is the case, you can use it when referring to an action taken by someone in an official capacity, such as a government or organizational representative.
Example: "The act of an official in this matter has raised several questions about the legality of the decision."
Alternatives: "official action" or "official act".
But congressional leaders swore them in Wednesday as the body's first act of official business.
From the outset, the Louima case represented a particularly dogged effort by prosecutors to enlist police officers against a vile act of official misconduct.
By telling immigration officials that he is illegally staying in the United States, the police have committed an unconstitutional act of official retaliation, Mr. Saleh contends.
By Andy Borowitz January 10 ,2017 MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report) — In a sweeping act of official censorship, the Russian government has banned all Meryl Streep movies from the country, effective immediately.
But everything I have seen suggests Moussavi, now rumored to be under house arrest, was cheated, the Iranian people defrauded, in what Moussavi called an act of official "wizardry".
But that didn't keep the bulldozers and the excavators from coming within scraping distance of the fifth-century Theodosian walls of the city itself — an act of official vandalism far more disturbing than the axing of a few plane trees in Gezi Park.
That kind of Censorship is the act of officials, possibly agents of the government, a corporation or some other formal bureaucracy.
Shootings and acts of official violence are handled promptly by an investigatory panel.
Anyone reporting acts of official or corporate malfeasance (from risking workers' health to damaging the environment) is protected from retribution provided he acts in good faith and goes through the right channels.
But C-Span is one of a kind, a creation of the cable industry that records every Congressional session, every White House press briefing and other acts of official Washington.
Mr Darling must hope the decision to reveal the emails was the last act of an official settling old scores with Byers rather than a signal that axes will continue to be ground during his stewardship.
