The phrase "rules that pertain" is correct and an acceptable usage in written English.
You would use this phrase to refer to specific rules that are relevant to the topic or situation being discussed. For example, "The company has set several rules that pertain to employee performance reviews."
Since tsarist times, the informal rules that pertain to Russia's governing élite have dictated that, if police come across evidence of wrongdoing by members of the secret services, they cannot investigate it themselves.
They incorporate the rules that pertain to the world outside the playground -- the rules enforced by the police, for example --but there are variations, additions and deletions, and no one on hand with a clipboard and a whistle to enforce them.
"Every co-op has rules that pertain to renovation, when you can do repairs in the building, where you can store bicycles and strollers," Ms. Renfrew said.
Stephen Walkom, the N.H.L.'s director of officiating, said that the shootout was governed by the same rules that pertained to in-game penalty shots, and that the penalty shot was meant to replicate a breakaway on goal.
But when the boundaries between home and work are eroded, then each of the rules that pertains to the workplace becomes a question that we're going to have to settle".
And this has become the pursuit of my life where people are so far out of it in what they expect and what they think realistic is and what the set of rules that pertains to them versus the other guys- Because that's what the bottom line is," the host said.
Jason Turbow and Michael Duca, obvious baseball obsessives from the San Francisco Bay Area, have collected dozens of stories from baseball history about situations that are not governed by the rule book but that pertain to the fuzzy notions of rightness and respect and that describe the contours of the so-called baseball codes.
Unlike the problems in recent financial scandals, issues raised by Fannie Mae's regulators appear largely to pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations -- not to sham transactions designed to cloak corporate malfeasance.
This does not rule out that these molecules may be bactericidal at later time points or under conditions that pertain in the human host, where TMC207 and PA-824 have clinical benefit (44 – 44).
3. Read The Times every day for two weeks and clip articles that pertain to kids' lives.
Rosenquist rules that out.
