The phrase "act prescribes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to indicate what a law or regulation mandates or requires.
Example: "The act prescribes specific penalties for violations of the law."
Alternatives: "the law mandates" or "the statute requires".
Indeed, the Copyright Act prescribes high statutory damages, $750 and up per work, for infringement.
The Act prescribes machinery for the voluntary arbitration of labor controversies.
3. The Act prescribes adequate standards for the guidance of administrative action and does not unconstitutionally delegate legislative power.
Officials insist that each move is made, as the Lanterman Act prescribes, on the choice of the individual involved or his family.
It argues that, as the Care Act prescribes that councils promote wellbeing through adult social care services, the removal of wellbeing payments needs urgent attention.
Hence, the Media Act prescribes, with respect to domestic broadcasting, that air time for radio and television programs on the national network should be allocated to broadcasting associations by the Commissariaat vcor de Media, the Dutch supervisory body for broadcasting.
In 1999, a doctor, acting under the state's Compassionate Use Act, prescribed marijuana in an effort to relieve Mr. Ross's pain.
Rep. 158, an act prescribing safety appliances was upheld.
He also struggled to maintain a regulatory balance between protecting consumers' health and guarding against hurting the economic health of industry, a juggling act prescribed by law.
64, which was the act prescribing rules for preventing collisions to be followed in the navigation of all public and private vessels upon the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal.
"We're following the law as both the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act prescribe it," Spicer said.
