The phrase "adopt the regulations" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in any context where someone or some entity wants to formally implement a set of rules. For example: "The governing board voted to adopt the regulations put forth by the city council."
A preamble to the treaty commits the signers to adopt the regulations "in a manner that respects and upholds their human rights obligations".
The Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources is expected to adopt the regulations next year. .
I found out from my dear friend Kathy Sullivan, an attorney in New Hampshire, that the state will take about 18 months to write and adopt the regulations for dispensing medical marijuana: [expletive deleted].
In an announcement in London, the agency said it would adopt the regulation on Dec. 4.
In adopting the regulations, the F.C.C. had said the rules would promote diversity of programming.
The State Division of Housing and Community Renewal adopted the regulations, saying it was updating and consolidating various legislative amendments, court rulings and policy directives since the last recodification, in 1987.
Democratic lawmakers voiced outrage that the House voted to revoke the rules after just an hour of debate, even though Mr. Clinton adopted the regulations after 10 years of studies and a year of hearings.
The commission adopted the regulations after an increasing number of newcomers began buying houses that had belonged to the families of fishermen and factory workers, gutting them and building larger ones.
Bush administration officials said they had adopted the regulations to streamline a guest worker program, known as H-2A, which most agricultural employers shunned because they said it was slow moving and hobbled by bureaucracy.
If adopted, the regulations, published by the ministry on Oct. 29, would let the provincial education authorities prevent foreign agencies from entering the market, and strengthen state supervision of domestic agents.
"Any claim that the board of health was bullied into adopting the regulations is contradicted by media interviews given by board members themselves".
