Disambiguation: "NPII" appears with two unrelated meanings in Australian register/insolvency contexts:
- AFSA's NPII - the National Personal Insolvency Index, a publicly available record of personal insolvency proceedings (bankruptcy, debt agreements, personal insolvency agreements) maintained by AFSA under the Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth). It contains full name, aliases, date of birth, residential address, and proceeding type. This is a separate AFSA register from the PPSR. Resellers of NPII (bankruptcy) searches operate under an AFSA Account Customer Terms carve-out.
- Hoist Assets's old "NPII" shorthand - historical internal Hoist terminology for non-personally-identifying PPSR searches (organisation-grantor + serial-number). Renamed to "org-only" on 2026-05-16 (Bead
ha-ju8) to avoid the collision above.
What Hoist Assets actually does
Hoist Assets operates only the org-only scope: organisation searches by ACN, and serial-number searches (VIN, chassis, aircraft serial) when source access is available. No individual-grantor (PII) searches are exposed at any layer. Hoist does not use AFSA's NPII bankruptcy-register carve-out for PPSR.
Hoist Assets does not use AFSA's NPII bankruptcy-register carve-out for PPSR. The current AFSA access status is published at /trust/afsa-b2g. Hoist's PPSR boundary remains org-only: organisation and serial-number searches when the relevant source access is available, and no individual-grantor searches.
What's permitted under Hoist's org-only scope
- Organisation searches by ACN
- Serial-number searches (VIN, chassis number, aircraft serial)
- Registration retrieval by registration number (if you already have one)
What's not permitted
- Individual-grantor searches
- Bulk extracts of the register
- Downstream resale of search data as a data product
How Hoist Assets enforces this
Our API rejects individual-grantor inputs at the boundary with a 400 response. There's no search_individual, no lookup_by_licence. See /trust/npii-boundary for the full enforcement story.
Related terms
- PPSR - The Australian national register where security interests in personal property are recorded.
- B2G Account - AFSA's framework for approved PPSR account-customer organisations and source availability.
- AFSA - The Commonwealth statutory authority that operates the PPSR and administers personal insolvency.
- Grantor - The entity (organisation or person) whose property is subject to a security interest under the Personal Property Securities Act.
How Hoist Assets uses this
Hoist uses this page to keep the acronym collision clear: NPII is AFSA's bankruptcy index; Hoist's PPSR scope is org-only. See /trust for current standing.