Chapter 22
Registration and the PPS Register
- 22.1 Registration
- 22.2 20 business day registration window – Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) section 588FL
- 22.3 Financing statements
- 22.4 The PPS Register is a “red flag” only – there is no “title by registration”
- 22.5 Requesting copies of security agreements
- 22.6 Financing change statements
- 22.7 Removal of pre-registrations where no security interest was ultimately taken
- 22.8 Registration by class of collateral
- 22.9 Registration against proceeds
- 22.10 Periods of registration – seven (7) years, 25 years or an indefinite period
- 22.11 Registration is only effective from the time the register shows the interest – so “search, register, search”
- 22.12 Verification statements
- 22.13 Search results - establishes registration time and priority time
- 22.14 Registration of PMSIs
- 22.15 Pre-registration before security interests attach
- 22.16 Inventory PMSIs must be pre-registered
- 22.17 "Silent equipment PMSI" risk
- 22.18 Amendment demands and amendment notices – cleaning up a cluttered register
- 22.19 Defective registrations
- 22.20 Other defects in registrations – PMSIs and “seriously misleading” registrations
- 22.21 Consequences of defective registrations
- 22.22 Registration, searches and privacy
- 22.23 Prescribed information, and prohibited registrations – impounded motor vehicles, proceeds of crime, freezing orders
- 22.24 Registration details for trusts
- 22.25 Applications for extension of time
22.16 Inventory PMSIs must be pre-registered
Pre-registration will be crucially important for inventory PMSIs (where the collateral is inventory in the hands of the grantor). The PMSI Rules require that the secured party under an inventory PMSI must perfect their PMSI by registration, and must register before they supply goods, or before their PMSI attaches (for inventory other than goods). This means that secured parties taking inventory PMSIs must pre-register before supply or attachment.
In practice, this will mean the secured party must register a financing statement against the grantor (usually a buyer) to perfect an inventory PMSI a few days, weeks or hours before the transaction is completed, probably during discussions or negotiations.
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