The phrase "authorities in effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the authorities that are currently in power or have influence in a particular situation or context.
Example: "The new regulations will be enforced by the authorities in effect, ensuring compliance across all sectors."
Alternatives: "current authorities" or "existing authorities".
Finally, the authorities in effect chucked him out earlier this year.
A promise to make every school accountable to local education authorities, in effect ending free schools and academies as currently structured.
There is no greater responsibility and it is essential that local authorities, in effect the parents of these children, act relentlessly to promote and protect the best interests of the children in their care.
Currently, the Treasury siphons off 50% of all business rates, enabling it to redistribute cash from prosperous areas to less well-off authorities, in effect helping to smooth out economic inequalities between councils.
She immediately began meeting all parties and considering the more than 200,000 public responses that had come in since the town authorities, in effect working in partnership with Stilo, had applied for improved road access in 2014.
A former trade negotiator, Wu was named to the job in April, after the authorities in effect admitted to a botched coverup of the epidemic.
[Excerpts, Page A20.] Justice Anthony M. Kennedy objected in dissent that the court was unwisely substituting "judicial judgment for the executive's discretion and authority," in effect establishing a rule that after six months, "foreign relations go into judicially supervised receivership".
And the recent House budget proposal, which calls for privatizing and voucherizing Medicare, also calls for eliminating resolution authority, in effect setting things up so that the bankers will get as good a deal in the next crisis as they got in 2008.
Foreign Office minister Hugh Robertson says Syrian authorities have "in effect murdered" a British doctor who was in the country to help victims of civil war.
"It appears the Chinese authorities have, in effect, forced the British Council to cancel this impressive ballet over what were clearly personal remarks," he said.
In allowing Chinese banks to use branches, British authorities are in effect betting that if anything goes wrong the Chinese government will bail them out, says Simon Gleeson of Clifford Chance, a law firm.The chancellor's decision has raised eyebrows in London's financial district.
