"framing the rules" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the establishment, clarification, or formalization of regulations or parameters. For example, "The company spent considerable time framing the rules for the new employee training program."
Arun Kumar, an official in the state's Social Welfare Ministry, said that it would take a couple of months more to frame the rules, which would then need to be vetted by the Law Ministry.
The history of Labour leaders demonised by the right wing press is not a pretty one, and the notion that Jeremy Corbyn could frame the rules of this war before he is annihilated may be a bigger fantasy than that of a Timelord defeating alien species with no more than the odd twist of his sonic screwdriver.
Provided that self-employment is taken seriously by the people who frame the rules and regulations... and by the people who think about what our future society may look like.
During the time when amendments to the legislation were being proposed, civil society framed the rules embedded within the legislation as counter-productive, restrictive and an invitation to abusive litigation by patent-holders.
As the Republican presidential candidates and conservative leaders sought to frame the rule as showing President Obama's insensitivity to religious beliefs, Mr. Obama's aides promised to explore ways to make it more palatable to religious-affiliated institutions, perhaps by allowing some employers to make side insurance plans available that are not directly paid for by the institutions.
I guess it would have been slightly more efficient to frame the rule positively and say "hit ball" instead of "avoid missing ball," but then you would lose the mystical Taoist absence-of-an-absence double-negative profundity of "avoid missing".
The next day, governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, another strong, likely-but-not-yet-announced Republican presidential candidate, released a statement framing the clean water rule as economically and ethically unsound: a form of Washington power grab affecting individual Americans' private lives and businesses.
"You're then seen as a leader and get to be at the table framing all the rules".
Photograph: LARRY DOWNING/Reuters Obama went on to frame the new rules as a public health win – especially for those at greater risk of lung diseases, such as children and the elderly.
