PPSR Securities Interest is an interest in Personal Property that secures payment of a debt or other obligation, regardless of the form of transaction. You become a secured creditor.
When selling goods on retention of title or consignment
Making a registration shows searchers that you are claiming an interest in the goods or assets you are selling on retention of title terms, or have consigned to someone else to sell on your behalf. This interest means the goods or assets secure the debt or obligation that someone owes you. The registration protects your interest in the goods or assets should the customer default or go broke.
If you don’t make a registration on those goods or assets and your customer goes broke before they have fully paid you, your stuff may be sold to pay secured creditors first.
If you are not registered, you will be an unsecured creditor in an insolvency and may not recover much, if anything, of what you are owed.
If you register as early as possible, you stand the best chance of being first in line over other creditors. It also helps you to protect your interest even if the goods or assets are sold on, mixed or installed onto other goods.
Think you’re already covered with a contract?
Don't rely on your contract.
A retention of title clause (indicating that title remains with you until goods are paid for in full) in your contract or invoice, no longer protects you on its own.
If you don’t make a registration, your retention of title clause is unlikely to stack up against others when you need to rely on it.
In other words, someone else who has registered an interest is ahead of you in the queue should your customer default or go broke.
Make sure you back up your contracts by registering your interest.
Click here for a link to the Personal Property and Securities Register website.