"enabling act" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
An enabling act is typically used to refer to a type of legislative act that gives a person or group of people the power to accomplish specific tasks or actions. For example, "The President signed an enabling act which gave the Board of Education the authority to create new school policies."
The Polish parliament passed an enabling act to speed the construction of railways, airports, hotels and stadiums stipulated by UEFA.
The German constitution of the Weimar Republic was never abrogated under Hitler, but an enabling act passed by the Reichstag in 1933 permitted him to amend the constitution at will, in effect nullifying it.
Also, in the case of the Scottish referendum in 2014, an enabling act was passed nearly nine months before the poll, and the Electoral Commission has recommended that "future referendum legislation should be delivered to a similar timetable and standard" – which would easily push the EU referendum into 2017.
The first time Congress passed an enabling act to allow warships of other countries to enter domestic United States waters was in 1890, when President Benjamin Harrison was authorized to invite foreign warships to a naval review in New York Harbor to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in 1892.
In December 1856, Rice brought forward two bills in Congress: an enabling act that would allow Minnesota to form a state constitution, and a railroad land grant bill.
Cromwell's reforms ground to a halt in 1539, the initiative lost, and he failed to secure the passage of an enabling act, the Proclamation by the Crown Act 1539.
Congress passed a similar enabling act in October 1996 to commemorate the millennium, and this time, warships from 43 nations are coming.
A provision in the enabling act prevented Iowa from issuing toll road bonds before neighboring states had issued similar bonds.
Rice's enabling act defined a state containing both prairie and forest lands.
The enabling act defined a state containing both prairie and forest lands with the boundaries drawn as they are today.
Debate over admitting Minnesota as a free state was heated, but the enabling act was finally passed on February 26 , 1857
