diff --git a/app/templates/views/check.html b/app/templates/views/check.html
index 4cb5e5e26..df6b7886a 100644
--- a/app/templates/views/check.html
+++ b/app/templates/views/check.html
@@ -15,7 +15,22 @@
 
 {% block maincolumn_content %}
 
-  {% if not recipients.has_recipient_column %}
+  {% if recipients.has_too_many_rows %}
+
+    <div class="bottom-gutter">
+      {% call banner_wrapper(type='dangerous') %}
+        <h1 class='banner-title'>
+          Your file has too many rows
+        </h1>
+        <p>
+          Notify can process up to
+          {{ "{:,}".format(recipients.max_rows) }} rows at once. Your
+          file has {{ "{:,}".format(recipients|length) }} rows.
+        </p>
+      {% endcall %}
+    </div>
+
+  {% elif not recipients.has_recipient_column %}
 
     <div class="bottom-gutter">
       {% call banner_wrapper(type='dangerous') %}
@@ -159,7 +174,8 @@
   {% call(item, row_number) list_table(
     recipients.initial_annotated_rows_with_errors if row_errors and not recipients.missing_column_headers else recipients.initial_annotated_rows,
     caption=original_file_name,
-    field_headings=['1'] + recipients.column_headers
+    field_headings=['1'] + recipients.column_headers,
+    empty_message='Can’t show the contents of this file'
   ) %}
     {{ index_field(item.index + 2) }}
     {% for column in recipients.column_headers %}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 15f42e3f5..09fb12758 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ pytz==2016.4
 
 git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-python-client.git@1.3.0#egg=notifications-python-client==1.3.0
 
-git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@9.0.6#egg=notifications-utils==9.0.6
+git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@9.1.0#egg=notifications-utils==9.1.0
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
index abefc56fb..5aef8e117 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
@@ -776,3 +776,42 @@ def test_check_messages_shows_too_many_messages_errors(
     details = page.find('div', class_='banner-dangerous').findAll('p')[1]
     details = ' '.join([line.strip() for line in details.text.split('\n') if line.strip() != ''])
     assert details == expected_msg
+
+
+def test_check_messages_shows_over_max_row_error(
+    client,
+    app_,
+    api_user_active,
+    mock_login,
+    mock_get_users_by_service,
+    mock_get_service,
+    mock_get_service_template_with_placeholders,
+    mock_has_permissions,
+    mock_get_detailed_service_for_today,
+    mock_s3_download,
+    fake_uuid,
+    mocker
+):
+    mock_recipients = mocker.patch('app.main.views.send.RecipientCSV').return_value
+    mock_recipients.max_rows = 11111
+    mock_recipients.__len__.return_value = 99999
+    mock_recipients.has_too_many_rows.return_value = True
+
+    client.login(api_user_active)
+    with client.session_transaction() as session:
+        session['upload_data'] = {'template_id': fake_uuid}
+    response = client.get(url_for(
+        'main.check_messages',
+        service_id=fake_uuid,
+        template_type='sms',
+        upload_id=fake_uuid
+    ))
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    page = BeautifulSoup(response.data.decode('utf-8'), 'html.parser')
+    assert ' '.join(
+        page.find('div', class_='banner-dangerous').text.split()
+    ) == (
+        'Your file has too many rows '
+        'Notify can process up to 11,111 rows at once. '
+        'Your file has 99,999 rows.'
+    )