The phrase "application of the act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to the implementation or enforcement of a specific law or regulation.
Example: "The application of the act has led to significant changes in environmental policy."
Alternatives: "enforcement of the act" or "implementation of the act".
The Bush administration is too quick to argue that the application of the act will impede the war on terror and poison relations with friendly governments.
Environmentalists say that barring application of the act in these zones would open up the oceans to unregulated activity that could damage them and destroy marine life.
Complete prohibition was always going to be desperately difficult to enforce, but this patchy, politically motivated, socially divisive application of the act made it increasingly unpopular.
A large amount of public money has been spent on training both the legal profession in the application of the act, and the public authorities in compliance with the act.
"Even on this court's view of the scope of Congressional power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, the Family and Medical Leave Act is undoubtedly valid legislation and application of the act to the states is constitutional," Justice Souter wrote for the three.
"The application of the Act that the government proposes ― interpreting 'warrant' to require a service provider to retrieve material from beyond the borders of the United States ―would require us to disregard the presumption against extraterritoriality," Carney wrote.
"This is kind of wild; it strikes me as a substantially unique application of the RICO Act," he said, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which the Justice Department is relying on.
Mr. Lovett said the consultants found that the mining industry would be more inconvenienced than devastated by proper application of the Clean Water Act.
As many legal experts have pointed out, Manning's case – for the magnitude of the leak, for the application of the Espionage Act and other laws under which he was prosecuted, for the length of the sentence in a leaks case – is unprecedented.
Entitled The Fog of Law, the report points to the application of the Human Rights Act and the growing application of civilian norms to military conduct via the courts as risks to the UK's armed forces.
For example, all observations with a reporting date of 12/31/2009 and observations in 2010 with a reporting date different from the calendar year (e.g., 03/31/2010) are interpreted as observations from 2009, because in this year the application of the German Accounting Law Modernization Act was permitted for the first time and mandatory application was required one period later.
