---
title: "Record the Queensland general-damages notice for the year of the injury"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-the-current-maximum-or-scale-for-non-economic-loss/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-DM20261023-10-QLD"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Record the Queensland general-damages notice for the year of the injury

> Record the injury scale value the lawyer assesses and the general-damages figure only where the lawyer says the injury arose in the 2026-27 year and names the band. Otherwise leave the dollar blank.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-the-current-maximum-or-scale-for-non-economic-loss/queensland  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Record the injury scale value the lawyer assesses and the general-damages figure only where the lawyer says the injury arose in the 2026-27 year and names the band. Otherwise leave the dollar blank. Do not pick the value. |
| What the lawyer must review | The lawyer assesses the injury scale value Use the 2026-27 notice only for an injury arising in that year The notice is the 'as made' text, not a reprint for every year An injury scale value below 5 does not of itself bar damages |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Record the current maximum or scale for non-economic loss](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/record-the-current-maximum-or-scale-for-non-economic-loss.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The tool records the band the lawyer names. It uses the 2026-27 notice only for an injury arising in that year.

- What the AI does: Record the injury scale value the lawyer assesses and the general-damages figure only where the lawyer says the injury arose in the 2026-27 year and names the band. Otherwise leave the dollar blank. Do not pick the value.
- What the lawyer does: The lawyer assesses the injury scale value and decides which notice applies.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Section 61: an injury scale value from 0 to 100 for an injury arising after 1 December 2002. The scale includes a case not severe enough to justify any award. The court uses the regulation rules and similar previous cases. If the value is outside the prescribed range, the court states the factors under section 61(2).
2. Section 62: general damages are the base amount plus the variable amount fixed by a notice under section 75 for the period in which the injury arose. The year is the year of the injury, not the year of the award. Section 75 itself was not opened.
3. The Civil Liability Indexation Notice 2026 section 4 fixes the amounts for the 2026-27 financial year. The page is headed as subordinate legislation as made. For an injury arising in that year, record only the band the lawyer names. An injury scale value of 5 or less has no base and is the value times $2,010. More than 5 to 10 has a base of $10,050 plus $2,360 for each value above 5. Do not apply this notice to an earlier injury. Leave the dollar blank if the year is not 2026-27.
4. The tool does not pick the injury scale value. Civil Liability Regulation 2025 section 14 says an injury scale value assessed by a court must be a whole number. Schedule 3 sets ranges of injury scale values. It does not set dollar amounts. Those ranges were not copied.

## Notes

- The notice's other bands for 2026-27 were read and match the notice. They are used only if the lawyer names the band and the injury arose in that year.
- Section 51, defining general damages, was not opened. If chapter 3 does not apply because of section 5, this notice is not used.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Queensland general damages under Civil Liability Act sections 61 and 62

**Deliverable**: A record of the injury scale value and, only for a 2026-27 injury, the notice band the lawyer names. The dollar is otherwise blank.

**Inputs**

- The injury scale value the lawyer assesses
- The date the injury arose

**Example**: Illustrative example: The lawyer assesses an injury scale value for an injury in 2024. The record stores the value and leaves the dollar blank, because the 2026-27 notice does not apply.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The draft picks the injury scale value.
- The draft uses the 2026-27 figures for an injury that arose in another year.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Civil Liability Indexation Notice 2026 (Qld) section 4](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/num_reg/clin2026305/s4.html) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 62](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cla2003161/s62.html) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 61](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cla2003161/s61.html) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Queensland injury scale value worksheet](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/qld-isv-worksheet.md) | Other | Yellow | Worksheet for general damages under Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) sections 61 and 62. The dollar amounts are in the Minister's notice for the year the injury arose, and this sheet does not copy them. |
| [New South Wales section 16 non-economic loss worksheet](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/nsw-cla-s16-worksheet.md) | Other | Yellow | Worksheet for non-economic loss under Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) section 16, using the percentage table and the rounding rule in the section.… |
| [Victoria Wrongs Act caps worksheet](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/vic-wrongs-caps-worksheet.md) | Other | Yellow | Worksheet for the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic) limits that were opened: the earnings cap, the indexed non-economic loss maximum, the discount rate, and the gratuitous care limits. No indexed dollar is typed. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*