Personal Property Securities (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2009

The Director-General is specifically authorised to provide the Commonwealth, the PPS Registrar or any other officer of the Commonwealth with such information recorded in, or concerning the use of, REVS as the Director-General considers appropriate in order to assist the Commonwealth in establishing the PPS Register.

Without limiting subclause (1), the Director-General is also specifically authorised to provide any of the following persons with such information recorded in REVS as the Director-General considers appropriate in order to assist in verifying the accuracy of information recorded in REVS for the purposes of data migration to the PPS Register:

any person who is (or formerly was) recorded in REVS as a debtor or creditor in relation to prescribed goods (within the meaning of the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1986),

any person acting on behalf of such a debtor or creditor (or former debtor or creditor),

any other person engaged by the Director-General to assist, or who is otherwise involved in assisting, in the migration of data from REVS to the PPS Register.

The Director-General may charge fees with respect to the provision of information under subclause (1A).

For the purposes of subclause (1), information recorded in REVS on behalf of another State or a Territory pursuant to an agreement under section 15A of the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1986 may be provided to the Commonwealth, the PPS Registrar or any other officer of the Commonwealth only if the Director-General has been requested to do so by or on behalf of the State or Territory concerned.

The Registrar-General is specifically authorised to provide the Commonwealth, the PPS Registrar or any other officer of the Commonwealth with such information recorded in, or concerning the use of, the General Register of Deeds for the purposes of the Security Interests in Goods Act 2005 as the Registrar-General considers appropriate in order to assist the Commonwealth in establishing the PPS Register.

The Director-General and Registrar-General may provide the information that they are authorised to provide under this clause in whatever form (including by means of electronic data or in a form approved for the purposes of the PPS Act) as they consider appropriate.

Subject to subclause (6), the provisions of this clause prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with the provisions of any other Act or statutory rule.

The provisions of this clause are in addition to, and do not derogate from, the provisions of section 9A of the Fair Trading Act 1987.