---
title: "Internal review checklist for a NSW victims support decision (categories, amounts and reasons)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/victims-support-internal-review-checklist-nsw"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a62-victims-support-internal-review-checklist-nsw"
area_id: "A62"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A62-V20261018-7"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-18"
---

# Internal review checklist for a NSW victims support decision (categories, amounts and reasons)

> Checklist to test a NSW victims support decision and prepare an internal review application: the 90-day limit, written grounds, eligibility, category and amount of recognition payment or financial support, evidence and…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/victims-support-internal-review-checklist-nsw  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-18

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

Checklist to test a NSW victims support decision and prepare an internal review application: the 90-day limit, written grounds, eligibility, category and amount of recognition payment or financial support, evidence and reasons, and the 42-day outcome period.

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- 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. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-18
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-18 against the 3 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use when a client receives a decision refusing or reducing victims support or a recognition payment under the NSW Act. Start straight away; the 90-day limit runs from notice of the decision.

## Used for these tasks

- [Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation.md#A62-V20261018-7)

## How AI may be used

AI may compare the decision with the application and evidence and list differences; the lawyer decides the grounds and writes the review application.

**AI may:**

- Set out the decision’s findings beside the application and evidence
- Calculate the 90-day date from notice of the decision

**AI must not:**

- Must not draft, summarise or outline the victim’s own account of the violence or its impact
- Must not write the grounds of review
- Must not lodge the application

**The lawyer checks:**

- The application is lodged within 90 days and states the grounds fully
- The recognition payment category claimed is supported by the evidence
- Any new evidence is ready to go with the application

## Authorities

- [Victims Rights and Support Act 2013 (NSW) s 49 (internal review: within 90 days; in writing stating the grounds fully; fresh decision; outcome within 42 days)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-037)
- [Victims Rights and Support Act 2013 (NSW) ss 35, 36 (categories of recognition payment; recognition payments)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-037)
- [Victims Rights and Support Act 2013 (NSW) ss 43, 44 (determination; reasons for not approving or reducing support)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-037)

## 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/victims-support-internal-review-checklist-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.*