At its meeting on 13 February 2011 the Council of Australian Governments agreed to defer the commencement date for PPS reform to October 2011. The Attorney General’s Department revised implementation schedule provides for the reforms to commence on 10 October 2011.
In the meantime the following steps are scheduled:
- additional Commonwealth legislative amendments to be passed by May 2011
- Commonwealth: Register Application to be developed by June 2011
- Commonwealth: Personal Property Securities Register user acceptance testing commences by June 2011
- All jurisdictions: complete migration of data from State and Territory registers and all related transitional arrangements by October 2011.