"procedure governs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a set of protocols or guidelines that are in place to control or determine a particular process. For example, "The procedure governs all decisions regarding employee vacation time."
Indeed, Article 65 of the Vienna Convention provides a broadly similar procedure governing the withdrawal from international treaties.
Every other phase of the sexual performance, after all, has its set of protocols, but what rules of procedure govern its preamble, which is so intimately linked to the initial decision to engage in the act at all?
Before January 2011, there was no corporate policy or procedure governing the engagement of agency staff, and decisions were taken at the discretion of local police commanders.
Military officials have indicated that there is now a separate standard operating procedure governing the use of restraint chairs.
Among other accomplishments, the task force helped establish 9-1-1 dispacrosservices across the United States and a procedure governing the treatment of suspects after arrest.
We are cited to no cases which indicate which of these procedures governs this order.
"At the end of August, UNICEF and the Swiss NGO Terre des hommes called on the Government of Nepal (GON) to tighten laws and procedures governing intercountry adoption, which they say has been open to abuses by orphanages and children's homes.
For years, as the number of people moving legally or illegally across national borders has grown, governments have resisted United Nations efforts to collect reliable statistics and coordinate procedures governing immigration.
It has tightened procedures governing such logos.
Disclosure Controls and Procedures Governing Social Media.
