The phrase "adopted an act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the formal acceptance or implementation of a specific law, policy, or regulation.
Example: "The government adopted an act to improve environmental protection standards."
Alternatives: "passed a law" or "enacted a statute".
In 1981 Parliament adopted an act making it impossible to alter the flag design without wide public approval.
Those 15 countries then introduced laws to reflect the changes and, in 2013, the Canadian parliament adopted an act "assenting" to the alteration of the British royal succession.
"Three hundred and thirteen years ago, on October 9, 1701, the General Court of the Connecticut Colony, meeting in New Haven, adopted an "Act for Liberty to Erect A Collegiate School," laying the foundation for what has become the Yale we know today". President Peter Salovey, Yale University.
The following definition of euthanasia was adopted: an act deliberately designed to end the life of a person suffering from a serious incurable disease and, at his/her request, put an end to a situation that he/she considers unbearable[ 14].
It is a concept that has drifted around in United States politics for several years now without catching on, except in Hawaii, which adopted an Ombudsman Act in 1967, and among certain lowly insurgent Democrats in New York City, who use the term to distinguish their intentions from those of regular Democrats, also known as "bosses" or "tools" of the bosses.
The 1977 Legislature adopted a State Employer-Employee RelActonSEERA (SEERA).
It was repealed in 1555 under Mary I, but in 1559 Parliament adopted a new Act of Supremacy during the reign of Elizabeth I.
By 1811, however, New York had adopted a general act of incorporation, setting the precedent that businessmen had only to provide a summary description of their intentions for permission to launch an enterprise.
Last year the Austrian Parliament adopted a normative act under which childcare allowances for foreign workers whose children do not reside together with them in Austria need to be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of their country of origin.
The USSR, for example, adopted such an act only in 1988.
The proposal was adopted, and an Act of Parliament passed on 20 June 1812 created The Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad Company.
