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Crown Entities Act 2004

Crown entity reporting and financial obligations - Reporting obligations - Planning: statement of intent

149: Obligation to publish and present statement of intent

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"Telling people about your plans and goals"

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You have to publish a statement of intent on a website as soon as possible after giving it to your Minister. The Minister can stop you publishing it before the Budget if it is for a period starting after the next Budget day. You must give a copy of the statement to the House of Representatives with your annual report or in another document presented at the same time.

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Part 4Crown entity reporting and financial obligations
Reporting obligations: Planning: statement of intent

149Obligation to publish and present statement of intent

  1. A Crown entity must, as soon as practicable after providing a final statement of intent to its responsible Minister, publish the statement of intent on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the entity.

  2. Despite subsection (1), if a final statement of intent relates to a period commencing on or after the next Budget day, the responsible Minister may require the Crown entity not to publish the statement in the pre-Budget period.

  3. The responsible Minister (or another Minister, if subsection (5) applies) must present a copy of the final statement of intent to the House of Representatives—

  4. in the same document as the entity's annual report for the financial year before the first full financial year to which the statement of intent relates (see section 150); or
    1. in any other document presented on or before the date on which the annual report described in paragraph (a) is presented.

      1. An entity's statement of intent may be presented or published in a document that includes any other statement or information, whether or not that other statement or information relates to the entity, but only if each statement or set of information is separately identifiable within that document.

      2. A Minister other than the responsible Minister may present an entity's statement of intent to the House of Representatives if—

      3. the statement is presented in a document that includes another statement or other information; and
        1. that other Minister is responsible for presenting that other statement or information.

          Notes
          • Section 149: replaced, on , by section 58 of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 51).