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LAWS6956: Personal Property Securities
2024 unit information
This unit analyses the Personal Property Securities legislation. The unit focuses on the concepts of security attachment and perfection. It examines the nature of security interests regulated by the legislation together with the registration priority and enforcement regimes. In discussing the Australian position, the unit compares similar legislation in Canada and New Zealand. Further information about this unit is available in the Sydney Law School timetable https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable, unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units and academic staff profile https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff.html
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Law
| Code | LAWS6956 |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Unless approved by the Unit Coordinator students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. analyse the breadth of the concept of a security interest, as well as the manner in which a security interest under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 may arise and be protected, afforded priority and enforced
- LO2. apply the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 to common commercial transactions
- LO3. evaluate the rationale and principles which inform the drafting of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009
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