Queensland Form 9
The form for giving notice before entering for a routine inspection.
Form 9 is the Queensland form for giving notice before entering for a routine inspection.
Routine inspection — at least 7 days' written notice (Entry notice Form 9); no more than once every 3 months, unless the tenant agrees in writing. After a notice to leave or an intention-to-leave notice, entries to show the property are capped at 2 in any 7 days (s 195A)
Always take the current version from Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA) — a superseded form can be refused, and the wording changes more often than the rule does. Last verified 1 August 2026.
When you can serve it
Routine inspection — at least 7 days' written notice (Entry notice Form 9); no more than once every 3 months, unless the tenant agrees in writing. After a notice to leave or an intention-to-leave notice, entries to show the property are capped at 2 in any 7 days (s 195A).
The timing in detail: Entry and inspections in Queensland.
Getting it right
- Serve it the way the Act allows, and count the notice from when the tenant receives it — not from the date you wrote on it. Post adds days.
- Use the current version from the regulator. Ours is the rule, not the PDF.
- Keep proof of service. A correctly worded notice you cannot prove you served is the same as no notice.
- If the tenant fixes the problem inside the period, the notice has done its job and does not go further.
General information, not legal advice — the disclaimer at the foot of this page applies.
How LandlordMate handles it
LandlordMate tracks whether Form 9 is even available yet — the arrears day count, the notice window, the eligibility date — and generates it against the tenancy when it is, so the dates on the form are the dates the rule produced rather than ones you worked out twice.