Policy · In-House / General Counsel
Organisational AI use policy: completion guide for the National AI Centre template (legal team additions)
A guide for in-house lawyers adapting the National AI Centre's free AI policy template: what the template covers, the legal-team clauses to add (privilege, confidentiality, privacy, automated decisions, records and holds, board oversight) and traps.
- Kind
- Policy. A policy or procedure for a firm or client.
- Where it applies
- Australia
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked against the cited sources on 17 October 2026.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Link to the official form. Licence: © Commonwealth of Australia (National AI Centre). No open licence stated on ai.gov.au or in the template: link only, not reproduced.
Where this comes from
The official form is published by ai.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-17.
When to use it
Use when an organisation wants a general AI use policy quickly and the legal team is asked to review or adapt the government template. For a law firm's own policy, use the law firm AI use policy (master firm policy) in the AI decision systems area instead.
How AI may be used
AI may produce a first draft of the organisation's policy from the template structure and the organisation's real tool inventory. Lawyers settle the rules on data, privilege and decisions, and the policy is approved by management or the board.
AI may
- Map the organisation's tool inventory and use cases into the template's sections.
- Draft the legal-team additions in Part 3 of this guide for lawyer review.
- Compare the draft with the privacy policy and the privilege protocol and flag inconsistencies.
AI must not
- Must not invent the tool list, approved uses or data rules.
- Must not copy the NAIC template into a product for sale or republish it.
- Must not set the policy's risk appetite.
The lawyer checks
- The data rules match the information classification policy and contracts with customers.
- Privileged material is dealt with consistently with the privilege protocol.
- The policy names who approves tools and how breaches are reported.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Official form
Open the official form. Always use the current version from the issuer. Licence: © Commonwealth of Australia (National AI Centre). No open licence stated on ai.gov.au or in the template: link only, not reproduced..
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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