The phrase "held in effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is currently in force or operational, often in legal or formal contexts.
Example: "The regulations will be held in effect until further notice from the governing body."
Alternatives: "in force" or "currently applicable".
Oil and gas rights are held in effect by the crown, not landowners.
The symbolism at the emergency meeting of the Tucson Unified School Board – held, in effect, to destroy the nation's premiere K-12 Mexican American Studies programme – could not have been more powerful.
This Court in Bush thus held, in effect, that although no laboratory can be made "danger proof," the trier of fact could nevertheless conclude that it was defective, and that the defect was a cause of the injury.
An English statute of 1529 held in effect that a servant who carried away goods entrusted to him by his master had committed larceny, since the legal title as opposed to the physical possession had never been transferred to him.
Margarita Simonyan, RT's editor-in-chief, said: "We accept the decision of Ofcom to have held, in effect, that a government's viewpoint must always be reflected and given due weight when it is criticised in the reporting of major political controversies.
Although the President's conversations with the lawyers retained to defend him remain protected, as they would be for any defendant, the appeals court held, in effect, that a lawyer who happens to be a Government employee and White House adviser is not automatically shielded from having to give testimony.
The party has also become in recent years a dominant player in mainstream politics, holding, in effect, veto power in the cabinet since 2008.
The agreement cuts to $5 billion (from $15 billion) the minimum level of reserves it promises to hold; in effect, it has an extra $16 billion to throw at the currency this year.
In recent years, there has been controversy over the provisions in census laws that are interpreted to hold, in effect, that a person only counts as a member of the national democratic franchise if his or her existence is literally observed and recorded by census takers.
Today the Court holds, in effect, that the Judiciary has no greater role in enforcing the Establishment Clause than in enforcing other "norm[s] of conduct which the Federal Government is bound to honor," ante at 484, such as the Accounts Clause, United States v. Richardson, 418 U.S. 166, and the Incompatibility Clause, Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War, 418 U.S. 208.
The Court thus sustained the defense of noninfringement by restricting the claims by reference to the prior art, and by holding in effect that the invention assigned was not as broad in scope as the claims would otherwise on their face define it to be.
