21. Personal Property Securities Act 1999
(a) The Customer acknowledges that these Terms constitute a security agreement which creates a security interest in favour of the Vendor in all Goods previously supplied by the Vendor to the Customer (if any).
(b) The Customer acknowledges and agrees that by making an Order the Customer grants a security interest (by virtue of clause 15 of these Terms) to the Vendor in all Goods supplied by the Vendor to the Customer pursuant to that Order and any subsequent supplies of Goods to the Customer notwithstanding anything express or implied to the contrary contained in the Customer’s purchase order and that such security interest may be a Purchase Money Security Interest as defined in the PPSA.
(c) The Customer grants to the Vendor a Security Interest in all of the Customer’s present and after-acquired property that the Vendor has performed services on or to or in which goods or materials supplied or financed by the Vendor have been attached or incorporated.
(d) The Customer undertakes:
(i) to sign any further documents and/or provide any further information (which information the Customer warrants to be complete, accurate and up to-date in all respects) which the Vendor may reasonably require to enable registration of financing statements or financing change statements on the Personal Property Securities Register (“PPSR”);
(ii) not to register a financing change statement as defined in section 135 of the PPSA or make a demand to alter a financing statement pursuant to section 162 of the PPSA in respect of the Goods without the prior written consent of the Vendor;
(iii) to give the Vendor not less than 14 days’ prior written notice of any proposed change in the Customer’s name and/or any other changes in the Customer’s details (including but not limited to changes in the Customer’s address, facsimile number, email address; trading name or business practice);
(iv) to pay all costs incurred by the Vendor in registering and maintaining any financing statement (including registering a financing change statement) on the PPSR and/or enforcing or attempting to enforce any security interest created by these Terms including executing subordination agreements;
(v) to be responsible for the full costs incurred by the Vendor (including actual legal fees and disbursements on a solicitor/client basis) in obtaining an order pursuant to section 167 of the PPSA; and
(vi) To waive any rights it may have under sections 116, 119, 120(2), 121, 125, 126, 127, 129, 131 and 132 of the PPSA.
(e) Pursuant to section 148 of the PPSA, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Vendor, the Customer waives the right to receive the verification statement in respect of any financing statement or financing change statement relating to the security interest.
(f) To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Customer waives its rights and, with the Vendor’s agreement, contracts out of its rights under sections referred to in sections 107(2)(c) to (e) and (g) to (i) of the PPSA.
(g) The Customer agrees that nothing in section 113, 114(1) (a), 117(1) (c), 133 and 134 of the PPSA will apply to these Terms, and, with the Vendor’s agreement, contracts out of such sections.
(h) The Customer and the Vendor agree that section 109(1) of the PPSA is contracted out of in respect of particular Goods if and only for as long as the Vendor is not the secured party with priority over all other secured parties in respect of those Goods and Services.
(i) The Customer agrees that immediately on request by the Vendor the Customer will procure from any third parties such agreement and waivers as the Vendor may at any time require to protect the Vendor’s security position.