Before the Personal Property Securities (PPS) Register
PPS reform harmonises various Commonwealth, state and territory laws into a national scheme for the treatment of security interests in personal property.
Referral of legislative power
The Australian states have referred constitutional power to the Commonwealth to support PPS reform by passing the referral legislation below:
Following the referral of power to the Commonwealth, the PPS Register has replaced a number of Australian, state and territory government registers for security interests in personal property, including those for bills of sales, liens, chattel mortgages and security interests in motor vehicles. The PPS Register has also replaced some Australian Government registers such as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Register of Company Charges.
The PPS Register includes records from the state and territory registers that was current immediately before the PPS Register became operational. You can find out more about the migration of the data from the transitional registers to the PPS Register on the transitional registers page.
From 30 January 2012, the PPS Register is the single national source of registered security interests in personal property. Previous registers are accessible for searching of historical records. Note that some registrations may not have been migrated either because the security interests are not registrable on the PPS Register, the security interests were no longer in force, or because they were short term security interests.
For information about how to access historical data held on closed registers visit the transitional registers contact details page and the contact details for transitional registers page.