The phrase "authorities administer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the actions or responsibilities of governing bodies or organizations in managing or overseeing certain functions or services.
Example: "The authorities administer public health programs to ensure the well-being of the community."
Alternatives: "officials manage" or "regulatory bodies oversee".
Local authorities administer the programme from funds allotted to them by the Home Office; in Scotland, Argyll and Bute was one of the first authorities to sign up.
By contrast, in Jerusalem today Muslim and Christian authorities administer their holy sites in a complex power arrangement under Israeli control.
Under longstanding arrangements, Islamic religious authorities administer al-Aqsa; Israel allows Jews to visit but not pray in the compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City that it captured, with other parts of east Jerusalem and the West Bank, in a 1967 war.
Under long-standing arrangements, Islamic religious authorities administer al-Aqsa.
Ideally that would mean no school controls its own admissions, locally agreed criteria and local authorities administering the process for all schools.
It came just as representatives of the troika the IMF and European authorities administering Greece's bail-out arrived in Athens for another inspection of efforts to revive the economy and to shake up the pubail-out arrived
There, authorities administered a dental aging test and a psychological evaluation.
Authorities administered field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test, which allegedly indicated MacDonald had consumed an unknown quantity of alcohol.
The secret three-drug cocktail that prison authorities administered to Lockett -- the first to render him unconscious, the second to paralyze him and the third to stop his heart and kill him -- didn't work as planned.
Under the plan, the state-created authority administering the district would borrow money that would be paid back from the additional sales-tax revenue.
The authority administers the Clinical Negligence Scheme for NHS Trusts, ensuring that claims by patients against NHS trusts are handled sensitively and fairly.
