# QLD Form 9 (https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/docs/form-guides/plumbing/qld/qld-form-9-backflow) Form 9 is the approved report for registration and inspection or testing of testable backflow prevention devices, registered air gaps and registered break tanks. It is used for sections 102(2) and 103(3) of the Plumbing and Drainage Regulation 2019. The authorised tester finishes the report, then gives copies to the relevant local government and the owner of the premises within 10 business days after inspecting or testing the device. This is the current Queensland Form 9. Tradie Forms follows the official section order and maps your answers onto the official PDF layout. Reporting general plumbing testing or commissioning rather than a testable backflow device? Use [QLD Form 5](https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/docs/form-guides/plumbing/qld/qld-form-5-testing) > **Warning** > > Tradie Forms prepares the PDF on the official layout. It does not decide whether a device passes, and it does not lodge the report with council or the owner for you. ## Before you start [#before-you-start] Have these in front of you while the test kit is still connected. Reconstructing readings after you leave is how most Form 9 rework starts. - **The device plate and site register** - Make, model, size, serial number and any owner asset tag for the main device and bypass where one is fitted. - **The test kit certificate or sticker** - Serial number and last verification date for the kit used on this test. - **The readings as the test is run** - Mains pressure, time of test, valve and relief readings, and isolation results before the gauges come off. - **Protection, device type and test type** - Containment, zone or individual; the AS/NZS 2845.3 appendix that matches the device; and whether this is installation, standard, commissioning or decommissioning. - **Owner or occupier contact for the premises** - Who receives the owner copy, and how they want it delivered, before you leave site. - **Your licence and contractor details** - Occupational licence for the authorised tester, contractor licence where it applies, and contractor company details when you are not the contractor for the work. Two fields gate download: the declaration acknowledgement and the declaration date. Everything else is optional in the app, but the official form says completion of all applicable sections is mandatory. ## Description of Land [#description-of-land] Identifies the premises where the device is installed. The official form says the description must identify all land the application covers. Match the property the device protects, not a job nickname. - **Street address (Address, Optional)** - Physical address of the premises. Address search is limited to Queensland and fills street, suburb, state and postcode. State starts as **QLD**. Check against the rates notice or previous Form 9, because search returns the current postal address and a device can predate a renaming or subdivision. - **Shop / Tenancy Number (Text, Optional)** - Fill on multi-tenancy sites so the report ties to the correct unit or shop. - **Storey / Level (Text, Optional)** - Fill when the building has more than one level and the device could sit on more than one of them. - **Local Government Area (Text, Optional)** - The council that receives the local government copy. Address search may fill this. Confirm it near a boundary, on new estates, and whenever the invoice suburb sits in a different council from the premises. ## Owner/Occupier Contact [#owner-occupier] Records who receives correspondence and the owner copy. Owner, occupier, site manager and accounts contact can all be different people. - **Owner/Occupier Name (Text, Optional)** - Prefer the legal owner of the premises when you know them, such as a body corporate name, rather than only the site manager who met you at the gate. - **Postal address (Address, Optional)** - Where written correspondence for this report should go. Address search is limited to Queensland. State starts as **QLD**. A PO Box is fine when that is the address the owner uses for compliance mail. - **Contact Phone Number (Tel, Optional)** - The best number for follow-up on this report, not a disconnected site phone. - **Email Address (if Known) (Email, Optional)** - Add it when known. Prefer an inbox the owner or body corporate actually monitors for the owner copy. ## Test Criteria [#test-criteria] Records what was tested and why. Tick the options that match the installation and this visit, using the device plate, asset record and the AS/NZS 2845.3 appendix you tested under. - **Type of protection (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - **Containment**, **Zone** or **Individual**. Match the protection level of the installation, not a default from last year's PDF for a different device on the same site. - **Type of device (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - One of the listed types with its appendix, for example reduced-pressure zone (Appendix E), double check valve (Appendix F), pressure-type vacuum-breaker (Appendix C), or registered air gaps and registered break tanks (Appendix A). The selection decides which later sections carry real readings rather than blanks. - **Type of test (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - **Installation/Registration Test**, **Standard Test**, **Commissioning Test**, or **Decommissioning and Removal**. Annual testing is usually a standard test. A new install, replacement, removal or first registration needs the option that matches this visit. Selecting a pressure-type vacuum-breaker, registered air gap or registered break tank does not hide other sections. Complete the sections that apply and leave non-relevant fields blank, as the form says on the device pages. ## Device Location, Mains Pressure and Time of Test [#device-location] Records where the device is and the site conditions when you tested it. - **Location of Device (Text, Optional)** - Write a location another licensed tester can find without calling you. On multi-building sites include building or block, level or plant room, which riser or meter assembly, side of building, and any asset tag. - **Useful** - Building C, level 1 plant room, fire service riser 2, asset tag BF-114 - **Too vague** - Plant room - **Mains Pressure (Text, Optional)** - Mains pressure in kPa at the time of test, from the kit while it is connected. Example: `450`. - **Time of Test (Time, Optional)** - Time the test was carried out. Enter it on site so it matches the diary and the readings. ## Backflow Prevention Device and Test Results (Main Device) [#main-device] Records the main device identity and the readings that support pass or fail. Leave non-relevant fields blank. Take make, model, size and serial from the plate in front of you, not last year's PDF alone. Values land on page 2 of the finished PDF. - **Make (Text, Optional)** - Manufacturer from the plate, such as `Watts` or `Zurn`. - **Size (Text, Optional)** - Nominal size in mm from the plate, such as `20`. - **Model Number (Text, Optional)** - Model from the plate, such as `009M2-QT`. Do not invent it after the cover is back on. - **Serial Number (Text, Optional)** - Exact serial from the plate. A replaced device with last year's serial is how the council register drifts from the site. - **Check Valve #1 (Text, Optional)** - Measured check valve 1 reading in kPa, such as `98`. - **Check Valve #2 (Text, Optional)** - Measured check valve 2 reading in kPa, such as `102`. Leave blank only when this device type has no second check valve reading. - **Relief Valve Opened (Text, Optional)** - Relief valve opening pressure in kPa where the procedure records it, such as `145`. Leave blank when the device has no relief valve test point. - **Isolating valves (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - Mark whether the upstream and downstream isolating valves were tight or leaked. Tick the results that match the test, not both tight and leaked for the same side. If the device fails, keep the readings, overall result and any repair notes consistent rather than tidying a fail into a silent pass. ## By-Pass Device [#bypass-device] Complete only when a bypass device is fitted. When there is no bypass, leave the whole section empty. Do not copy main-device readings into these fields. - **Make (Text, Optional)** - Manufacturer from the bypass plate. - **Size (Text, Optional)** - Bypass size in mm from the plate. It is often smaller than the main device. - **Model Number (Text, Optional)** - Model from the bypass plate. - **Serial Number (Text, Optional)** - Bypass serial from the plate. Swapping main and bypass serials is a common copy error on meter assemblies. - **Check Valve #1 (Text, Optional)** - Bypass check valve 1 reading in kPa from this test of the bypass, not a reuse of the main-device reading. - **Check Valve #2 (Text, Optional)** - Bypass check valve 2 reading in kPa when the procedure records it. - **Relief Valve Opened (Text, Optional)** - Bypass relief valve opening pressure in kPa when that test applies. - **Isolating valves (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - Upstream and downstream isolating valve results for the bypass only. ## Pressure Type Vacuum Breakers [#pressure-vacuum-breaker] Complete when the tested device is a pressure-type vacuum breaker (or spill-resistant type using these fields). Leave blank for RPZ, double check and other assemblies. - **Make (Text, Optional)** - Manufacturer from the PVB plate. - **Size (Text, Optional)** - Size in mm from the plate. - **Model Number (Text, Optional)** - Model from the plate. - **Serial Number (Text, Optional)** - Serial from the plate on the device you tested today. - **Non Return Valve (Text, Optional)** - Non-return valve reading in kPa, such as `12`. - **Air Inlet Opening Pressure (Text, Optional)** - Air inlet opening pressure in kPa, such as `7`. Enter the measured value, not an estimate. - **Isolating valves (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - Includes **Failed to Open** plus upstream and downstream isolating valve tight or leaked results for this PVB. ## Air Gap [#air-gap] Complete for a registered air gap or registered break tank. Refer to AS 2845.2 for type (Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3). Use measured values, not estimates. - **Type of air gap (CheckboxGroup, Optional)** - **Overflow Type 1**, **Overflow Type 2**, **Overflow Type 3**, **Registered Air Gap**, or **Registered Break Tank**. - **ID Number (Text, Optional)** - Identifier from the site register or previous reports, such as `AG-1042`. - **Size of Inlet Orifice (Text, Optional)** - Inlet orifice size in mm, such as `25`. - **Air Gap Sizing (Text, Optional)** - Air gap size in mm, such as `50`. - **Total Height Spill Level Plus Air Gap (Text, Optional)** - Combined spill level plus air gap height in mm, such as `125`. - **Overflow Sizing (Text, Optional)** - For Overflow Type 1 or 2 the value is in mm; for Type 3 it is in mm². Match the unit to the type you selected. ## Test Kit [#test-kit] Records the kit that produced the readings on this report. Clean valve numbers with a stale verification date still look unfinished to council. - **Test Kit Serial Number (Text, Optional)** - Exact serial from the kit body or its certificate, such as `TK-55291`. - **Date Test Kit Last Verified (Date, Optional)** - Last verification or calibration date on the kit record. Does not accept a future date. Today and Yesterday shortcuts are available. Check the sticker before the first PDF of the day. **Saved detail: Test Kit** - save this section to prefill it on your next Form 9 you run with the same kit. ## Authorised Tester [#authorised-tester] Records the licensed person who carried out the test. Put the person who tested this device, not a colleague whose licence is saved in the app. - **Authorised Tester's Name (Text, Optional)** - Full name of the tester responsible for this report. - **Authorised Tester's Phone Number (Tel, Optional)** - A number council or the owner can use if the report needs clarifying. - **Occupational Licence Number (Text, Optional)** - Occupational licence used for this testing work. Licence check against the QBCC register can fill the tester name from the number. Confirm the name still matches the person on site. - **Contractor Licence Number (if Applicable) (Text, Optional)** - Contractor licence when it applies to the authorised tester. Leave blank when it does not. Licence check can fill the name from the number. - **Date of Test (Date, Optional)** - Date the readings were taken. Today and Yesterday shortcuts are available. Does not accept a future date. Different from the declaration date when you sign later, even if both are often the same day. - **Authorised Tester's Email (Email, Optional)** - Working email for the tester or their office. **Saved detail: Authorised Tester** - save this section to prefill it on your next Form 9 you prepare as the tester. ## Contractor Licence [#contractor] Complete when the responsible person is not the contractor for the work. Leave both fields blank when the section does not apply. - **Full Name of Company (or Individual if Not a Company) (Text, Optional)** - Company name on the contractor licence, or the individual when there is no company. If you fill either contractor field, fill both so the section is complete. - **Contractor's Licence Number (Text, Optional)** - Contractor licence number. Licence check against the QBCC register can fill the company name. Confirm it matches the contractor on this job. **Saved detail: Contractor Licence** - save this section to prefill it on your next Form 9 where the same contractor applies. ## Authorised Tester's Results [#tester-results] Records the overall result under AS/NZS 2845.3:2020. Pass or fail must agree with the readings and any repair notes. Result and comments land on page 3 of the finished PDF. - **I have tested the device/s marked in this form in accordance with the relevant appendix of AS/NZS 2845.3:2020. (RadioGroup, Optional)** - Select **Pass** or **Fail** from the readings. If the device fails, select Fail, record the comments, and keep any repair or retest trail with the job rather than rewriting the first result as a pass. - **Comments (Textarea, Optional)** - Explain failures, repairs, limitations or site notes council and the owner need. On a fail, write what failed and what happens next clearly enough without your test sheet. - **Useful** - Check valve 2 below required differential. Device failed. Isolation left in place. Replacement booked; retest Form 9 to follow. - **Too vague** - Needs work ## Declaration [#declaration] States that the information on the form is a true and accurate record. Sign only after land, device, readings, kit, licence and result are checked. These two fields block download on an untouched form. - **Declaration (LegalDeclaration, Required)** - Acknowledge the statement that the information provided is a true and accurate record. Download will not proceed until this is accepted. - **Signature (Signature, Optional)** - Signature of the authorised tester. Use a saved signature when it is yours. On the finished PDF it lands on page 3 with the declaration text and date. - **Date (Date, Required)** - Date you sign the declaration. Today and Yesterday shortcuts are available. Does not accept a future date. Download will not proceed without it. Often the same day as the test, but it is still the declaration date, not a second copy of the test time. ## Common mistakes [#common-mistakes] - **Guessing the local government area from the invoice suburb.** - Boundary sites, new estates and postal addresses often sit in a different council from the device. Confirm the premises LGA before lodgement. - **Writing a plant-room location that could be any of three risers.** - Next year's tester cannot call you for directions. Name the building, level, riser or meter assembly, and asset tag when the owner uses one. - **Copying last year's serial without reading the plate.** - Devices get replaced between annual tests. Make, model, size and serial must match the unit in front of you, including the bypass when one is fitted. - **Pasting main-device readings into the bypass block.** - When there is no bypass, leave that section blank. When there is one, test and report it separately. - **Leaving kit verification on last season's date.** - Saved kit details go stale after re-verification. Check the sticker before the first PDF of the day. - **Selecting Pass when the readings show a fail.** - Record the fail, the repair or replacement, and the retest rather than tidying the first visit into a silent pass. - **Finishing council lodgement and forgetting the owner copy.** - Both the local government and the owner need a copy within 10 business days. Completing one path does not close the obligation. - **Signing before the applicable sections are finished.** - Finish readings, kit, licences and result, check the preview, then sign and date. ## Before download [#before-download] - Street address and local government area identify the correct premises - Owner or occupier details are the people who should receive the owner copy - Protection, device type and test type match this installation and visit - Main device serial and readings match the plate and test kit record - Bypass, PVB and air gap sections are complete only when they apply, otherwise blank - Test kit serial and verification date match today's kit - Pass or fail agrees with the readings and comments - Declaration is acknowledged, signed and dated, and the PDF preview matches what you intend to send ## After download [#after-download] Copies must go to the relevant local government and the owner within 10 business days after inspecting or testing the device. Treat both as part of test closeout, not a later office chore. - **Send the local government copy** using that council's current method. Keep the portal reference or email acknowledgement with the job. - **Deliver the owner copy on purpose.** Body corporate, owner or managing agent, by the method they accept. - **Name the file so the site, device and test date are obvious.** `Form 9 - 42 Stanley St - BF-114 - 1 Jun 2026.pdf` is easier to find next year than `Form9-final.pdf`. - **Keep the PDF with the underlying test record.** A query weeks later needs the readings behind the report. - **If the device failed,** keep the fail report, repair notes and any retest Form 9 in the same device history. Check the current Business Queensland requirements and your local government's lodgement process. Tradie Forms does not lodge the report for you. > **Warning** > > You remain responsible for lodging the finished report with the local government and the owner inside the required period. Tradie Forms prepares the PDF only. ## Related guides [#related-guides] - **[Form 9 testing walkthrough](https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/resources/qld-form-9-backflow-testing-guide)** - On-site capture of device details, readings, kit records and pass or fail comments. - **[Form 9 records and copies](https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/resources/qld-form-9-backflow-record-keeping-handover)** - Council and owner copies, the 10 business day window, and a device history worth reading next year. - **[Form 1, Form 5 and Form 9 handovers](https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/resources/qld-plumbing-form-1-form-5-form-9-handover-guide)** - How permit, testing and backflow paperwork pass between people and deadlines. - **[Form 5 testing report](https://dev.tradieforms.com.au/docs/form-guides/plumbing/qld/qld-form-5-testing)** - General plumbing testing or commissioning rather than a testable backflow device.