The phrase "act that allows the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific piece of legislation or regulation that grants permission or authority for a particular action or process.
Example: "The act that allows the implementation of new environmental regulations was passed last year."
Alternatives: "legislation permitting the" or "law enabling the".
Yesterday, the Senate voted to overturn a 2006 provision in the Patriot Act that allows the attorney general to appoint indefinite interim United States attorneys.
It turns out that there was a 2004 amendment to the National Monuments Act that allows the minister for the environment to demolish a national monument if he chooses.
In its case in Michigan, the A.C.L.U. is challenging a section of the act that allows the F.B.I. to obtain a court order to force any organization to turn over tangible evidence.
They are seeking to persuade the Fish and Wildlife Service to shrink the designation significantly, under the provision of the Endangered Species Act that allows the government to apply cost-benefit tests.
Lieut Col Kumar Lama, 49, was charged under a rarely used clause of the 1988 Criminal Justice Act that allows the prosecution in the UK of alleged foreign war criminals.
The government cited a provision of the Patriot Act that allows the barring of foreigners who "use a position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity".
Garrett Anderson's campaigning contributed to the 1876 "Enabling Act" that allowed the licensing of both male and female doctors.
The previous parliamentary vote, in 2005, was boycotted by many Sunni Arabs, an act that allowed the insurgency to fester and fueled subsequent sectarian bloodshed.
In 2006 and again in 2010, the Library of Congress approved an exemption to the act that allowed the circumvention of technology that confined wireless handsets to different networks.
The Assembly routinely waited for the latest market data so it could adjust its revenue estimates upward, an act that allowed the Democratic majority to justify more liberal spending.
After 9/11, Congress enacted a provision of the USA Patriot Act that allowed the detention of people suspected of terrorism — but it applied only to noncitizens and then only for seven days.
