Lodging a bond in Queensland

Who lodges

You do, if the tenants paid the bond to you. Tenants can also pay it straight to the Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA). If you receive the bond, give the tenants a receipt straight away.

When

Within 10 days of receiving it. Each instalment, and any increase, has its own 10 days. Lodging late is an offence (Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008, sections 116 to 119).

How

1. Online: sign in to RTA Web Services and use the Bond Lodgement Web Service (single lodgement, not bulk). Pay by card or BPAY.
2. On paper: fill in the Bond lodgement form (Form 2), have every tenant who paid sign it, and post it with the payment to GPO Box 390, Brisbane Q 4001. The RTA doesn't take Form 2 by email.

What you'll need

• The property address, the number of bedrooms and the type of home
• The tenancy's start and end dates, the weekly rent and the total bond
• Your full or trading name, ABN if you have one, postal address, phone, email, and your RTA ID if you have one
• For each tenant: full name, date of birth, phone, their own email address (the RTA won't record one email for two people) and how much of the bond they paid
• When the rent was last increased, and whether you bought the property in the 12 months before the tenancy started

Receipt and bond number

Once the payment clears, the RTA sends an Acknowledgement of rental bond to you and each tenant who paid, by email if you agreed to that, otherwise by post. It shows the rental bond number. Quote it for any instalment or increase.

Record it in Leasii

On the tenancy page, under Bond, enter the rental bond number and the date you lodged it, and upload the acknowledgement.

Sources: RTA: Rental bond, Form 2.Checked against the official pages on 12 November 2026.