§27 · Lane 7 — Australian Regulatory Primary Instruments
NSW AI Assurance / Assessment Framework
NSW Government (2022, renamed 2024) · NSW AIAF
Bibliographic data
- Title
- NSW Government AI Assurance Framework (March 2022) / NSW AI Assessment Framework (1 July 2024 update)
- Authors / Issuing body
- NSW Department of Customer Service (Digital NSW)
- Venue / Publisher
- NSW Government
- Year
- 2022
- Designation
- Guidance
- Licence
- Stable URL — refer to publisher for full licence terms.
How to cite
NSW Government (2022, renamed 2024). NSW Government AI Assurance Framework (March 2022) / NSW AI Assessment Framework (1 July 2024 update). NSW Government. https://www.digital.nsw.gov.au/policy/artificial-intelligence/ai-governance-assurance-and-frameworks/nsw-ai-assessment-framework.
The NSW state-government framework for assessing AI risk in agency projects. Originally issued March 2022 as the AI Assurance Framework; renamed and substantially updated 1 July 2024 as the AI Assessment Framework now distributed as an Excel workbook integrated with the NSW Digital Assurance Framework. The most operationally detailed AU state-government AI framework.
Why it matters for NETEVO
The NSW AI Assurance Framework — renamed AI Assessment Framework on 1 July 2024 and now distributed as an Excel workbook integrated into the NSW Digital Assurance Framework — is the AU state-government anchor in the one template, five regulatory hooks argument that runs through the ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO/IEC 42005 surfaces. It is the most workflow-detailed AU regulatory-style framework in circulation.
Operational template, not aspirational guidance. The AIAF ships as a project-level question bank with risk-rating matrices and executive-sign-off fields. For NETEVO clients selling AI products into the NSW Government supply chain, the workbook is the concrete what the regulator wants to see artefact — the AU operational template against which NETEVO's Law-to-Code Methodology delivers engineered controls.
Binding via DCS-2024-04. The 2024 Use of Artificial Intelligence by NSW Government Agencies policy, made under section 4(2)(c) of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 (NSW), binds NSW Government agencies and most NSW Government suppliers via grant and contract conditions. The 2024 framework update also broadens scope to address generative AI and aligns with the Commonwealth National Framework for the Assurance of AI in Government and the EU AI Act — so a single set of AIAF outputs can carry into federal and international comparator surfaces for multi-jurisdiction clients.
NSW AI Review Committee operational. NSW now runs a published external-expert AI Review Committee that takes referrals of high or critical risk AIAF outputs via the NSW Office for AI. The committee issues advisory recommendations only; agencies retain decision-making authority. Two consequences follow: NETEVO clients with high or critical risk NSW projects should prepare AIAF outputs with the committee referral pathway in mind, and the committee's composition — drawn heavily from UTS Human Technology Institute, Gradient Institute, and the federal AI Expert Group — signals where the AU AI assurance practitioner consensus is forming.
Where NETEVO applies this
- AI Governance in ANZ Whitepaper — load-bearing — state-government section