Lien Searches

PERPIS:

Gold Key Registries uses the Personal Property Information System to perform searches on property that may be subject to another registration. It is used to protect the rights of buyers and creditors. You should search the Personal Property Registry before buying personal property or accepting personal property as collateral for a loan.

In the event that the property is subject to another registration, the Personal Property Information System (PERPIS) does not always record the amount owing/involved. Persons requesting searches should contact the secured party or creditor for more information.

All information registered on PERPIS will contain a status of either “current” or “deleted”. It is important to always check the status of the information provided in your search results.

When purchasing a previously owned vehicle, in addition to a Personal Property Registry search, Gold Key Registries can provide a Vehicle Information Report.

What can be searched:

• Individual Debtor Name Search:
  Determines if there are registrations for a specific individual debtor name
• Business Debtor Name Search:
  Determines if there are registrations for a specific business debtor name
• Serial Number Search:
  Determines if there are registrations for specific serial number goods
• Registration Number Search:
  Determines the status of a Personal Property Registry registration number
• Related Writ Search:
  Determines if there are related writ registrations for individual and/or business names for the purpose of providing the related writ holders with notices under various sections of the Civil Enforcement Act.
• Distribution Seizure:
  Determines if there are registrations for individual and/or business names that may participate in distribution proceeds. This type of search determines if enforcement proceedings are possible.

How to ensure precise results:

1. Individual Debtor Name Search: Use the full legal name of the debtor, in the following format: Last name,First Name,Middle Name (ensure that there are no spaces between the commas) Only one individual debtor name can be searched per search request.
2. Business Debtor Name Search: Use the full legal business name of the debtor. Only one business debtor name can be searched per search request
3. Serial Number Search: Use the entire serial number of the serial number goods. A definition of serial number goods is in section 1(s) of the Personal Property Security Regulation. Do not include any hyphens, words, punctuation marks, or symbols that are not part of the actual serial number. Only one serial number can be searched per search request.
4. Registration Number Search: Use the entire Personal Property registration number which consists of 11 digits (for example: 00021612379). The first six digits are the year, month, day. Only one registration number can be searched per search request
5. Related Writ Search: Use the full legal name of the debtors, either individual and/or business names. Multiple and alias individual and/or business names can be searched on each search request.
6. Distribution Seizure : Use the full legal name of the debtors, either individual and/or business names. Multiple and alias individual and/or business names can be searched on each search request.

To ensure more complete and accurate search results, it may sometimes be advisable to conduct more than one search, in some situations, you may wish to conduct both debtor and serial number searches.

Before the search is printed, carefully check the list of inexact results. If any inexact result closely matches what you are searching for, ask to have these results detailed in full for that result.