The phrase "approve an act" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to indicate that someone has given formal permission or agreement to something. For example, "The board of directors approved an act that would expand the company's operations."
Royal Assent is the method by which a country's constitutional monarch formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or letting it be promulgated as law.
As lack of regulation could undermine the future of the programme, MoPH has approved an Act to establish a new regulatory body - the Nursing and Midwifery Council, expected to be in place by 2014.
In January 1835, frustrated by the political stalemate, Michigan's acting territorial Governor Stevens T. Mason called for a constitutional convention to be held in May of that year despite Congress' refusal to approve an enabling act authorizing such a state constitution.
However, those measures failed to pass, largely due to concern that the House, which passed an clean bill earlier this month by a vote of 338-88, would refuse to approve an amended act.
On February 12th Parliament approved an infrastructure act which will cut delays on projects that have received planning permission.
Parliament subsequently approved an emancipatory act that gave all enslaved people in British colonies their freedom by 1838.
Now, however, the belated passage of a law to give former members of the once-ruling Baath party a better deal may at last unblock the political logjam.Earlier this month, parliament voted by a show of hands to approve an "accountability and justice" act that removes many restrictions imposed on the middle (but not top) level of Baath members, whose cadres were disproportionately Sunni.
The extremist arrested in the Czech Republic -- Jan Kopal, the chairman of the fringe National Social Bloc -- was charged with approving a criminal act.
Elise Keaton points out that the region's rich coalfields were a major part of the reason President Abraham Lincoln approved a controversial Act of Congress in 1863 to carve out West Virginia as a new state.
Mail Rail was approved by an Act of Parliament a century ago, and during its heyday its driverless trains carried 12 million postal items daily on the line stretching from East End's Whitechapel to west London's Paddington.
