BC Personal Property Security Act Practice Manual

This book is essential for: lawyers acting for or advising creditors or debtors in secured transactions.

The only practical guide to PPSA transactions, the British Columbia Personal Property Security Act Practice Manual takes you step by step through all the parts of a secured transaction. Regularly updated, this two-volume, practice-oriented manual is written and reviewed by leading PPSA practitioners and contains the Act and Regulation.
Subscriptions include online access with search capability and links to the full text of case law and legislation, forms and precedents on CD-ROM, and regular updates.

Highlights of the 2010 update

• enforcement under Supreme Court Civil Rules
• precedent Notice of Civil Claim
• receivership appointment under Supreme Court Civil Rules
• BIA amendments in force September 2009
• expanded discussion of PMSI priority
• fishing licences personal property subject to PPSA: SCC
• liens against wares subject to destruction, export, disposition under Trade-marks Act
• brokers collecting commitment fees from unwilling mortgagors
• step-in rights to secure performance of obligations
• maintaining priority for security interests in fixtures, accessions, crops
• elimination of Social Service Tax, possible exemptions on aircraft under HST

Chapters
1.     PPSA Overview
2.     Negotiating Security Agreements
3.     The Anatomy of Security Agreements
4.     Security Interests
5.     Chattel Leases
6.     Conflict of Laws Issues
7.     Describing Collateral
8.     Demands for Information
9.     Perfection
9A.   Investment Property
10.   Special Financings
10A. Purchase Money Security Interests
11.   Fixtures, Crops, and Accessions
11A. Unique and Creative Uses of PPSA Security
12.   Subordinations
13.   Due Diligence
14.   The Registration System
14A. Discharging Registrations
15.   Debtor Name and Serial Number Registrations
16.   Name Changes, Collateral Transfers, and Amalgamations
17.   Floating Charges on Land
18.   Enforcement Steps and Practice
18A. Enforcing Security Interests Over Intellectual Property
19.   Receivers
20.   Protecting the Debtor
21.   Standards of Conduct
22.   Non-Compliance and its Consequences
23.   Opinions

Glossary

Checklists
1. Secured Transaction Checklist
2. PPSA and Related Notice Periods, Time Limitations, and Grace Periods
3. Lease Checklist
4. Due Diligence Search Checklist
5. Debtor Names Checklist

Forms and Precedents
I. Security Agreements
II. Security Interests
III. Chattel Leases
IV. Demands for Information
V. Special Financings
VI.   Fixtures, Crops, and Accessions
VII.  Subordinations
VIII. The Registration System
IX.   Name Changes, Collateral Transfers, and Amalgamations
X.    Enforcement Steps and Practice
XI.   Receivers
XII. Protecting the Debtor
XIII. Opinions

Legislation
Personal Property Security Act
Personal Property Security Regulation

• complete set of forms and precedents
• comprehensive index, case table, statute table, and references
• checklists
• glossary
• regular updates
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law