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Crown Entities Act 2004

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

149A: Obligation to publish and present amendments to statement of intent

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"Crown entities must publish and share changes to their plans with the public and the government."

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When a Crown entity makes a change to its statement of intent, it must publish the change on its website as soon as possible. The Minister in charge must also give a copy of the change to the House of Representatives. You can find out more about how the statement of intent is finalised under section 147 or 148. The Crown entity and the Minister must follow these steps after the change is finalised.

If the change will come into effect on or after the next Budget day, the Minister can stop the entity from publishing the change before the Budget. The Minister does not have to give the change to the House of Representatives before the Budget either. You can find out more about when the entity must publish its statement of intent under section 149. The entity must publish its statement of intent before it publishes any changes to it.

If Parliament is not sitting, the Minister does not have to give the change to the House of Representatives right away. The Minister must give the change to the House of Representatives as soon as possible after Parliament starts sitting again.

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

149AObligation to publish and present amendments to statement of intent

  1. As soon as practicable after an amendment to a statement of intent is finalised under section 147 or 148,—

  2. the Crown entity must publish the amendment on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the entity; and
    1. the responsible Minister must present a copy of the amendment to the House of Representatives.

      1. Despite subsection (1),—

      2. if the amendment will come into force on or after the next Budget day, the responsible Minister—
        1. may require the entity not to publish the amendment in the pre-Budget period; and
          1. need not present the amendment to the House of Representatives in that period; and
          2. the entity must not publish an amendment to a statement of intent before publishing the statement of intent under section 149; and
            1. the responsible Minister must not present a copy of an amendment to a statement of intent to the House of Representatives before presenting a copy of the statement of intent to the House of Representatives under section 149; and
              1. if Parliament is not in session, subsection (1)(b) does not apply, but the responsible Minister must present a copy of the amendment to the House of Representatives as soon as possible after the commencement of the next session of Parliament.

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