South Australia Form 5
The form for putting a tenant on notice that the rent is behind, and giving them a chance to fix it.
Form 5 is the South Australia form for putting a tenant on notice that the rent is behind, and giving them a chance to fix it.
Rent arrears — a Form 5 breach notice is ineffectual unless the rent has been unpaid for not less than 14 days before it is given; the notice must allow at least 7 days to remedy
Always take the current version from Consumer and Business Services (SA) — a superseded form can be refused, and the wording changes more often than the rule does.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
Rent arrears — a Form 5 breach notice is ineffectual unless the rent has been unpaid for not less than 14 days before it is given; the notice must allow at least 7 days to remedy. You can generate the Form 5 breach (7 days to remedy) from the Compliance screen when the tenancy is eligible.
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 5 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.