---
title: "NSW victims support: instructions where support may be reduced or refused"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/support-reduced-or-refused-instructions-nsw"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a62-support-reduced-or-refused-instructions-nsw"
area_id: "A62"
kind: "memo"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A62-V20261018-7", "A62-V20261018-4"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# NSW victims support: instructions where support may be reduced or refused

> A note of the facts a lawyer needs before advising on a possible reduction or refusal of NSW victims support, using the factors the recognition payment page says s 44 includes.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/support-reduced-or-refused-instructions-nsw  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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

## Key facts

- Kind: Memo. An internal or advice memo.
- Practice area: [Victims of Crime Support & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use when a NSW victims support application may be affected by the victim's or the deceased's conduct, or by money already received. The note records the questions. It does not record a drafted account of the violence.

## Used for these tasks

- [Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/check-a-victims-scheme-decision-against-the-categories-and-limits.md)
- [Prepare the application to a state victims support scheme](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/prepare-the-application-to-a-state-victims-support-scheme.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may list payments and policies already in the documents; the lawyer takes instructions and decides whether s 25 or s 44 is engaged.

**AI may:**

- List insurance payments, judgments and other amounts shown in documents on the file
- Set out the two example factors the government page gives under s 44, as examples only

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide that support will be refused or reduced
- Must not draft the victim's account or an explanation of their conduct
- Must not treat the page's two examples as the whole of s 44

**The lawyer checks:**

- Section 25 and the whole of s 44 have been read, not only the examples on the web page
- Every other payment is identified with its source and whether it relates to the act of violence
- The client has approved any description of conduct that will be put to Victims Services

## Authorities

- [NSW Government, Recognition payment through the Victims Support Scheme (persons not eligible, s 25, and circumstances where support may be declined or reduced, s 44)](https://www.nsw.gov.au/legal-and-justice/information-for-victims-of-crime/victims-support-scheme/recognition-payment)

## 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/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/support-reduced-or-refused-instructions-nsw 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.*