Does an Agistment Give Rise to a Security Interest?

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Little tough to understand, as it is written by lawyers, however may be important if not entering into an agreement whereby you are not responsible for looking after your agisted stock when on another property.

An agistment agreement can have two forms:

  • Bailment: Normally an agistment is a bailment. A bailment is simply where one person (the bailor) gives possession of goods, such as stock, to another person (the bailee), and the bailor has the right to receive the goods back. When the agistment is a bailment, the stock owner does not have a right to occupy the land and is not responsible for looking after the stock.
  • License or lease of land: This will be the case when the stock owner has the right to enter the land and to look after the stock.

The article outline the relevant legal implications of each under the Personal Properties Securities Act 2009 (Cth).

If within class of regulated bailments – the interest of the stock owner will be a security interest under the PPSA.

If it is a security interest, the stock owner may want to register the interest under the agistment on the Personal Property Securities Register (the  PPSR), to preserve the priority of the owner’s interest in the stock.

Agistment will give rise to a PPSA security interest where:

  • it is a bailment (rather than a lease or licence);
  • the bailment is for a term of more than one year or an indefinite term;
  • the bailor (the owner of the stock) is regularly engaged in the business of bailing goods (such as stock); and
  • the bailee (the owner of the land) provides value for the bailment.
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Bradley Dawson
Bradley Dawson

Bradley es un experimentado redactor de Farm Table, que aporta décadas de experiencia en periodismo y creación de contenidos. Tras haber sido productor y periodista del sitio web de deportes de Telstra, ha perfeccionado sus habilidades para elaborar contenidos atractivos e informativos. Ahora, aplica su experiencia al sector agrícola australiano, ofreciendo textos de alta calidad que informan y apoyan a la comunidad agrícola australiana.

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