The phrase "act was enforced" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to indicate that a specific law or regulation was put into effect or upheld.
Example: "The new environmental act was enforced to ensure compliance with sustainability standards."
Alternatives: "law was implemented" or "regulation was upheld".
Between 1660 and when the act was enforced on August 24, 1662, almost 2,000 Puritan ministers were ejected from their positions.
Officials from the Government Accountability Office and the E.P.A.'s Office of the Inspector General testified about widespread inconsistencies in how the Clean Water Act was enforced, and said disorganization, a lack of reliable data and poor planning by state and federal regulators had stymied efforts to punish polluters.
In October, the E.P.A. administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, said she was overhauling how the Clean Water Act is enforced.
"I have made the decision, that some of you may have some interest in, in order to continue work in empowering women, to making sure that our Affordable Care Act is enforced in a way to make sure that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition," she said.
She would also believes law enforcement should be trained in the law to ensure that the FACE Act is enforced, regardless of one's views on abortion.
"This is a case that could have major ramifications for how the Wiretap Act is enforced, and what the consequences are in a world where more wiretaps are done on mobile phones that move across territorial lines," Daskal said.
The Act is enforced by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) — an independent body responsible for data protection and freedom of information — which has powers to serve enforcement notices and impose penalties.
No one is suggesting an edict of 50/50 male-female acts be enforced at 100% of events.
On the recommendations of the committee, the Rowlatt Act, an extension of the Defence of India Act 1915, was enforced in India.
Neither the Volstead Act nor the Amendment was enforced with great success.
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, purported to give Americans the right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," but it was not until a century later, with the passage of the act, that the right was enforced, and Southern blacks were finally free to cast a ballot.
