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#### 5.03A Minister’s decision on an assessment on referral information (1) For subsection 87(4A) of the Act, the criteria for a decision by the Minister are all of the following: (a) the potential scale and nature of the relevant impacts of the action can be predicted with a high level of confidence; (b) the relevant impacts are expected to be short term, easily reversible or small in scale; (c) adequate information is available about relevant impacts on the matters protected; (d) the action is likely to have a significant impact on only a small number of protected matters or elements of each relevant protected matter; (e) if the information is available—the person proposing to take the action has a satisfactory record of responsible environmental management and compliance with environmental laws; (f) the degree of public concern about the action is, or is expected to be, moderately low. (2) In making a decision on an assessment on referral information, the Minister must not consider financial or economic factors.