Can an RTO still enrol new students in AHC20710?

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 27 June 2017. 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 AHC20710?

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).

AHC20710 Certificate II in Production Nursery

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.

AHC20710Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Production Nursery
equivalent
AHC20716Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Production Nursery
not equivalent
AHC20720Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Nursery Operations
not equivalent
AHC20724CurrentCertificate II in Nursery Operations

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.

RTF20603AHC20710not equivalent9 June 2011
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
AHC20710AHC20716equivalent26 June 2016
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AHC20710 and for its training package AHC10 (release 8.0), 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.

AHC20710_R2.pdfAHC20710 release 2 · product document · published 20 July 2012
AHC20710_R2.docxAHC20710 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is AHC20710 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether AHC20710 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 AHC20710 is made of

training.gov.au lists 22 units for AHC20710. 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 22 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
AHCBIO202A	Follow site quarantine procedures	`N/A`	not current
AHCCHM201A	Apply chemicals under supervision	`N/A`	not current
AHCDRG201A	Maintain drainage systems	`N/A`	not current
AHCINF203A	Maintain properties and structures	`N/A`	not current
AHCIRG202A	Assist with the operation of pressurised irrigation	`N/A`	not current
AHCIRG206A	Maintain pressurised irrigation systems	`N/A`	not current
AHCMOM202A	Operate tractors	`N/A`	not current
AHCMOM203A	Operate basic machinery and equipment	`N/A`	not current
AHCMOM211A	Operate side by side utility vehicles	`N/A`	not current
AHCNSY201A	Pot up plants	`N/A`	not current
AHCNSY202A	Tend nursery plants	`N/A`	not current
AHCNSY203A	Undertake propagation activities	`N/A`	not current
AHCNSY204A	Maintain indoor plants	`N/A`	not current
AHCOHS201A	Participate in OHS processes	`N/A`	not current
AHCPCM201A	Recognise plants	`N/A`	not current
AHCPGD203A	Prune shrubs and small trees	`N/A`	not current
AHCPMG201A	Treat weeds	`N/A`	not current
AHCPMG202A	Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders	`N/A`	not current
AHCSOL201A	Determine basic properties of soil and/or growing media	`N/A`	not current
AHCWRK204A	Work effectively in the industry	`N/A`	not current
AHCWRK209A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA201A	Provide basic emergency life support	`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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