"administrative act" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an action taken by a public office, such as in this example sentence: "The President signed an administrative act to reduce corporate taxes."
Will last month's dumping of Kidd on Dallas be remembered as his next great administrative act?
In some countries the enforcement is entrusted to the criminal courts, which can review the administrative act; in others the administrative act itself must be challenged in an administrative court.
It is of course impractical to subject every administrative act or decision to investigation, for this would entail unacceptable delay.
He added: "In our 2014 report we said that the belief of the complainer should be institutionalised for the purpose of the administrative act of recording a crime.
An administrative act or decision can be invalidated on any of these grounds if the reviewing court or tribunal has a sufficiently wide jurisdiction.
When an administrative act takes the form of an unconditional command addressed to the citizen, a fine or penalty is usually attached for failure to comply.
State supervisory committees presided over by government-appointed commissioners exercise control over administrative acts.
In response, special administrative courts were set up to which private citizens or corporations could appeal against administrative acts.
Indeed, no laws, no initiatives, no administrative acts will perfectly solve all the challenges I've outlined tonight.
Instead, in one of Drummond's last administrative acts, the council ran a competition, inviting submissions from across Scotland.
He should also convince Parliament to abolish the law that allows criminal prosecution of public officials for what are essentially administrative acts.
