---
title: "Payment directions for damages of a child or protected person"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/protected-person-funds-payment-directions"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-protected-person-funds-payment-directions"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "court-document"
ai_level: "red"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-T1-R11", "A21-W20261018-1"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Payment directions for damages of a child or protected person

> Payment directions for damages of a child or a person under disability or legal incapacity in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The lawyer writes any order that is filed.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/protected-person-funds-payment-directions  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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

## Key facts

- Kind: Court document. A document filed or served in a court or tribunal.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales
- AI level: Red. You write the text. The tool writes nothing into the document. Where permitted, it may check, clarify or collect data, and anything it checks or collects is verified.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 7 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use when a compromise for a child or a person who cannot give a binding release has been, or will be, approved, and the order must say who is paid, from what, and when. Do not use it for a client who can sign the deed and be paid.

## Used for these tasks

- [Prepare court-approval papers for a child or protected-person settlement](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-court-approval-papers-for-a-child-or-protected-person-settlement.md)
- [Notify Medicare of a judgment or settlement and track the clearance](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/notify-medicare-of-a-judgment-or-settlement-and-track-the-clearance.md)

## How AI may be used

The lawyer writes the payment orders; the tool may reconcile the waterfall against notices the lawyer has accepted and must not write the order or any affidavit that supports it.

**AI may:**

- Set the statutory-charge line beside the notice of charge the lawyer has accepted
- List a clearance named in the draft order that is not yet on the file
- Record the email or cheque step the Funds in Court page asks for, once the order exists

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide who is appointed trustee, administrator or manager
- Must not send the balance to the client because a deed has been signed, where sanction or approval is still required
- Must not put the medical or care reports into a public tool

**The lawyer checks:**

- The payee in the order matches the practice of that court: Funds in Court in a Victorian Supreme Court payment-in, the trustee or administrator in the Queensland pro forma, and the destination the New South Wales order actually states
- Medicare is a charge line in the waterfall where the Services Australia page requires the Commonwealth to be paid before the injured person is paid
- The time for payment is the time in the order, and a Victorian cheque is accompanied by the authenticated order
- Supreme Court of Victoria filings are checked against Practice Note SC Gen 25. Proposed orders are not generated and then filed

## Authorities

- [Funds in Court (Vic), Payment of funds into Court (electronic payment, cheque to the Senior Master, time in the order)](https://fundsincourt.vic.gov.au/for-legal-other-professionals/approvals-of-compromise-payment-of-funds-into-court/)
- [Funds in Court (Vic), Approvals of Compromise, quoting Supreme Court r 15.08](https://fundsincourt.vic.gov.au/for-legal-other-professionals/approvals-of-compromise/)
- [Supreme Court of Victoria Practice Note SC Gen 25 (14 May 2026)](https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/areas/legal-resources/practice-notes/sc-gen-25-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-by-court-users)
- [Supreme Court of Queensland Practice Direction 15 of 2018, paragraphs 8 to 12 and the annexed payment orders](https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/578195/sc-pd-15of2018.pdf)
- [Public Trustee of Queensland, sanctions under s 59 (legal name, and payment held for a person under a legal disability)](https://www.pt.qld.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/official-solicitor/lawyers-and-insurers-fee-estimates-and-sanctions-under-s59)
- [District Court Practice Note DC (Civil) No. 7, paragraph 6D (net amount to be invested or paid under a court order) and paragraph 8 (undertaking)](https://districtcourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/districtcourt/documents/practice-notes/district-court-pn---civil/Practice%20Note%20-%20Court%20Approval%20of%20Settlements%20(Civil).pdf)
- [Public Trustee Act 1978 (Qld) s 59(1) and (4) (who is paid, and money held by the public trustee)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/pta1978179/s59.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/protected-person-funds-payment-directions and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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