The phrase "adopted in effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been put into practice or is functioning as intended, even if it hasn't been formally established.
Example: "The new policy was adopted in effect, allowing employees to work remotely while the official guidelines were still being finalized."
Alternatives: "implemented in practice" or "put into operation".
If the policy is adopted, Amnesty would "in effect advocate the legalisation of pimping, brothel owning and sex buying – the pillars of a $99bn global sex industry", CATW said.
A new constitution, adopted in 1871, remained in effect, except for a brief interlude (1917 19), until 1949.
Review of the annual business report of the office was another method adopted in evaluating the effects of the water projects in the city.
When US officials realised Paul Oquist, Nicaragua's delegate, planned to deliver a fiery speech denouncing the deal, Secretary of State John Kerry and Raúl Castro, the Cuban leader, telephoned Managua to make sure Oquist spoke after the agreement was adopted, when it would in effect be too late.
The U.S. national security strategy, adopted in 2002 and still in effect, clearly proclaims the need for U.S. global military superiority.
The rule was adopted in June and took effect in August.
The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons was adopted in 1968, went into effect in 1970 and was extended indefinitely in 1995.
Swiss Civil Code, French Code Civil Suisse, German Schweizerisches Zivilgesetzbuch, body of private law codified by the jurist Eugen Huber at the end of the 19th century; it was adopted in 1907 and went into effect in 1912, and it remains in force, with modifications, in present-day Switzerland.
Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome measures included and random effect models adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.
A Euler Bernoulli shaft model is adopted, in which the transverse shear effects are neglected and the effects of translational and rotatory inertia, gyroscopic moments, and internal viscous or hysteretic damping are taken into account.
