AHC21316 Certificate II in Shearing

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC21316 ended on 9 February 2025 — 20 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 11 February 2026 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (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, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. This is an obligation of RTOs registered by ASQA; those registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding AHC21325 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
9 February 2025
Latest release
Release 1 · 27 June 2016
Supersedes
AHC21310
Superseded by
AHC21325 not equivalent

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.

  1. AHC21316Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Shearing
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC21325CurrentCertificate II in Shearing

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.

  • AHC21310AHC21316not equivalent26 June 2016

    This qualification is not equivalent to AHC21310 Certificate II in Shearing

  • AHC21316AHC21325not equivalent10 February 2025

    Packaging rules changed, elective units added to allow for greater flexibility. Superseded units updated, additional imported unit added. New unit AHCSHG218 added to electives

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AHC21316 and for its training package AHC (release 11.0), 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.

Is AHC21316 on your scope?

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What AHC21316 is made of

training.gov.au lists 9 units for AHC21316: 9 core and 0 elective. 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.

Core units 9 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCLSK217Apply animal welfare principles to handling and husbandry of livestocknot current
AHCSHG201Crutch sheepnot current
AHCSHG203Shear sheep to novice levelnot current
AHCSHG205Grind combs and cutters for machine shearingnot current
AHCSHG206Prepare handpiece and downtube for machine shearingnot current
AHCSHG210Undertake basic shearing and crutchingnot current
AHCWHS201Participate in work health and safety processesnot current
AHCWRK204Work effectively in the industrynot current
AHCWRK209Participate in environmentally sustainable work practicesnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "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 13 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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