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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
146FGeneral considerations
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146F General considerations
(1) The Minister must consider the following, so far as they are not inconsistent with any other requirements of this Subdivision:
(a) matters relevant to any matter protected by a provision of Part 3 that the Minister considers is relevant to the approval;
(2) In considering those matters, the Minister must take into account:
(a) the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and
(b) any bioregional plan, and any bioregional guidance plan, that the Minister considers relevant; and
(c) any relevant advice obtained by the Minister from the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Unconventional Gas Development and Large Coal Mining Development in accordance with section 146CA.