Can an RTO still enrol new students in ACM30310?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 29 November 2018. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in ACM30310?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

ACM30310 Certificate III in Captive Animals

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

ACM30310Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Captive Animals
equivalent
ACM30317Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Captive Animals
not equivalent
ACM30321CurrentCertificate III in Wildlife and Exhibited Animal Care

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

RUV30204ACM30310not equivalent10 November 2010
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
ACM30310ACM30317equivalent28 November 2017
Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for ACM30310 and for its training package ACM10 (release 3.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

ACM30310_R2.docxACM30310 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024
ACM30310_R2.pdfACM30310 release 2 · product document · published 20 July 2012

Is ACM30310 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether ACM30310 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What ACM30310 is made of

training.gov.au lists 33 units for ACM30310. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 33 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
ACMATE302A	Carry out institution containment and exclusion procedures	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN301A	Work within a captive animal facility	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN302A	Prepare and present information to the public	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN303A	Support collection management	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN304A	Prepare and maintain animal housing	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN305A	Assist with capturing, restraining and moving animals	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN306A	Monitor animal reproduction	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN307A	Rehabilitate native wildlife	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN308A	Release native animals to natural environment	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN309A	Develop institutional husbandry guidelines	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN310A	Assist with exhibit design and renovation planning	`N/A`	not current
ACMCAN311A	Care for young animals	`N/A`	not current
ACMGAS301A	Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing	`N/A`	not current
ACMGAS302A	Provide enrichment for animals	`N/A`	not current
ACMGAS303A	Plan for and provide nutritional requirements for animals	`N/A`	not current
ACMGAS305A	Rescue animals and apply basic first aid	`N/A`	not current
ACMGAS306A	Assist with conditioning animals	`N/A`	not current
ACMOHS301A	Contribute to occupational health and safety processes	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE301A	Provide basic care of amphibians	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE302A	Provide basic care of birds	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE303A	Provide basic care of common native mammals	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE304A	Provide basic care of dogs	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE305A	Provide basic care of domestic cats	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE306A	Provide basic care of marine fish	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE307A	Provide basic care of freshwater fish	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE308A	Provide basic care of marine aquatic invertebrates	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE309A	Provide basic care of terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE310A	Provide basic care of mammals	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE311A	Provide basic care of non-venomous reptiles	`N/A`	not current
ACMSPE312A	Provide basic care of rodents and rabbits	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 3 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
ACMSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
AHCFAU301A	Respond to wildlife emergencies	`N/A`	not current
AHCNAR202A	Maintain wildlife habitat refuges	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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