The phrase "authorisation acts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to legal or regulatory frameworks where specific acts or laws grant authority or permission for certain actions.
Example: "The new authorisation acts will streamline the process for obtaining permits in the construction industry."
Alternatives: "authorization laws" or "permission acts".
"We have an NDAA [National Defence Authorisation Act] where they disappear people now.
The Medibank Private Sale Authorisation Act was passed swiftly in 2006.
The most recent NASA Authorisation Act (from 2010) and the International Space Exploration Working Group are still broadly in favour of a Mars shot.
A wide range of bills signed by the President in recent years, including the latest National Defence Authorisation Act, contain provisions that have been interpreted as potentially allowing for a previously unthinkable erosion of the rights of US citizens.
They are also due to debate a national defence authorisation act, which should finally result in an equally limited compromise to fund the military and allow pay increases for US troops.
But once democracy begins to weaken, a terror attack - or a flood, or a mass protest that results in a "threat to public order" - can all be used as excuses to crack down on civil society and make martial law easier - as provided for recently, I am sorry to say, in the US by the 2007 Defence Authorisation Act.
The US Congress, through the Nasa Authorisation Act 2010, has mandated that this rocket should be launching by the end of 2016, although the agency has previously stated that it views this timeline as challenging.
Wednesday's announcement is the culmination of months of study on the part of Nasa engineers, and sometimes fractious argument with the US Congress which felt the agency was not moving fast enough on the project it initiated in a piece of legislation called the Nasa Authorisation Act 2010.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees made an historic announcement that it would adopt a resolution dedicated to ending child marriage, while the US Violence Against Women re-authorisation act included provisions to prioritise the reduction of child marriage internationally.
Section 7 is entitled Authorisation of Acts outside the British Islands, and says: "If, apart from this section, a person would be liable in the United Kingdom for any act done outside the British Islands, he shall not be so liable if the act is one which is authorised to be done by virtue of an authorisation given by the secretary of state under this section".
