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Primary victim application (ACT Financial Assistance Scheme): completion guide
Link to the ACT primary victim application for financial assistance, on the Human Rights Commission forms page. The link text states no form number. The file name includes a June 2025 string. The lawyer confirms the current file. The PDF was not opened.
- Kind
- Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Where it applies
- Australian Capital Territory
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the official form at hrc.act.gov.au and the 2 authorities it cites, for Australian Capital Territory.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Link to the official form. Licence: © ACT Human Rights Commission. Link only: download the current primary victim application from the forms page each time; do not copy or adapt it.
Where this comes from
The official form is published by hrc.act.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-22.
When to use it
Use when a person injured emotionally or physically by a violent crime in the ACT applies as a primary victim. Do not use the related-victim, funeral, variation or extension form unless that is the application. The tool does not write the account of the crime.
Used for these tasks
- Build the victims' claim eligibility and deadline register
- Index the police, medical and counselling records for a victims' application
- Build the expenses and income loss schedule for a financial assistance claim
- Prepare the application to a state victims support scheme
- Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may check the application pack against the current form and list missing records. The lawyer writes any account of the violence and checks every form before it is lodged.
AI may
- Check the pack against the current official form and list records the opened page says to include
- Flag when a primary, family, related or extension form is being used for the wrong applicant
- List the time limits, caps and contact details stated on the page that was opened
AI must not
- Must not draft the account of the violence, the effect on the person, or any words that would be lodged in the application
- Must not invent a fact, a date, a police report or a medical finding
- Must not sign or lodge the application
The lawyer checks
- The current primary victim file is downloaded and saved before it is completed, as the forms page instructs
- The file name is not treated as a form number. The lawyer confirms the current file
- Police-reporting rules, including the special reporting class on the financial assistance page, are checked for this applicant
- The court's or tribunal's current index is checked before assuming a generative-AI practice direction applies. None was stated on the page opened for this guide.
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: © ACT Human Rights Commission. Link only: download the current primary victim application from the forms page each time; do not copy or adapt it..
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