Line reports against Queensland special assistance categories
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Quote the act-of-violence description and any injury description from the documents the lawyer marks, with the document and page, and set them beside schedule 2 only as the lawyer directs. Do not choose a category.
- What the lawyer must review
- Choose the schedule 2 category from the act of violence, not from the injury alone
- Check category A, B or C circumstances that can lift a lower category
- Use the amounts in the current reprint: $15,000, $9,000, $6,000 and $3,000
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. Victim Assist Queensland, schedule 2 special assistance
Produce. A comparison table of the act described in the documents against schedule 2, with the category left blank.
Have ready. Police or other report describing the act; Medical report; Current schedule 2.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The police report describes grievous bodily harm and the medical report describes the injuries. The table quotes both and leaves the category blank. The lawyer decides whether it is category B and whether any lifting circumstance applies.
Stop and hand it back when
- The act of violence is not described in a document.
- A category is filled in by the tool.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Quote the act-of-violence description and any injury description from the documents the lawyer marks, with the document and page, and set them beside schedule 2 only as the lawyer directs. Do not choose a category. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Match the act, not the diagnosis, to schedule 2. Category A includes attempted murder, rape, and the incest and section 229B matters the schedule states. Category B includes a sexual offence, grievous bodily harm, and domestic violence, among the matters listed.
- Category C includes unlawful wounding and assault occasioning bodily harm. Category D is an act that is not category A, B or C, including assault and unlawful stalking that is not in a higher category.
- Apply schedule 2 section 1 where category A, B or C circumstances lift a lower act to a higher amount. Do not do that lift in the tool.
- The government guide states a special assistance range of $3,000 to $15,000, which matches these four amounts. Read the reprint current from 2 October 2024 before using them.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victims Services recognition payment: amounts, time and documents | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the Victims Services recognition payment page: the published amounts, who the page says may apply, the time limits printed on that page, and the documents a primary victim is asked to provide. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- Victims of Crime Assistance Act 2009 (Qld) schedule 2, special assistance categories · 2026-10-23
- Queensland Government: guide for victims applying for financial assistance · 2026-10-23
- Victims of Crime Assistance Act 2009 (Qld), in force · 2026-10-23
An injury report can show that the person is a victim. It does not by itself choose the schedule 2 category.
Related victims are not paid this special assistance. The guide gives them distress, dependency and funeral payments instead.