"was formally issued" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when you want to describe a document or a decision that was officially sanctioned or made public. For example: "The decree was formally issued by the King last week."
At least one arrest warrant was formally issued – for Haberdar's Ankara correspondent, Arzu Yıldız.
At the next hearing, when the sentence was formally issued, they again made love in the holding room.
In their morning meeting, Mr. Annan stressed to Mr. Powell the need for agreement among the Security Council's permanent members before any proposal was formally issued.
The book was formally issued in the United States only in 1962, one year after Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and a decade before Alex Comfort's "Joy of Sex".
A 37-cent stamp honoring the singer, actor and social activist Paul Robeson was formally issued last week in Princeton, the town where he was born 106 years ago.
Though his report, said to run more than 1,000 pages, is being handled under tight security, Lord Hutton said all affected parties would be given copies 24 hours in advance, provided they signed an oath not to reveal its contents before it was formally issued.
It is expected to be formally issued to officials here this week.
Mr. Netanyahu denies any wrongdoing, and is entitled to a hearing before an indictment is formally issued.
They were formally issued in June and approved Thursday, allowing little time for the clinics to meet requirements they described as unnecessarily onerous.
Ms. Christensen said the agency would not release a draft of the policy because it had not yet been formally issued.
But that information was advisory and was not circulated as widely as it would have been had it been formally issued by the city.
