Part 4 s 149 Crown Entities Act 2004 Version as at 1 July 2024 Section 148(6): inserted, on 1 July 2014, by section 57(7) of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 51). Section 148(7): inserted, on 1 July 2014, by section 57(7) of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 51). 149 Obligation 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 com‐ mencing 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 Representa‐ tives— (a) 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 (b) in any other document presented on or before the date on which the annual report described in paragraph (a) is presented. (4) 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. (5) A Minister other than the responsible Minister may present an entity’s state‐ ment of intent to the House of Representatives if— (a) the statement is presented in a document that includes another statement or other information; and (b) that other Minister is responsible for presenting that other statement or information. Section 149: replaced, on 1 July 2014, by section 58 of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 51). 149A Obligation to publish and present amendments to statement of intent (1) (2) 74 As soon as practicable after an amendment to a statement of intent is finalised under section 147 or 148,— (a) the Crown entity must publish the amendment on an Internet site main‐ tained by or on behalf of the entity; and (b) the responsible Minister must present a copy of the amendment to the House of Representatives. Despite subsection (1),—