AHC21716 Certificate II in Permaculture

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC21716 ended on 22 January 2023 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 24 January 2024 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs 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.

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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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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Product type
Qualification
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
22 January 2023
Latest release
Release 3 · 13 February 2021 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
AHC21722 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. AHC21716Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Permaculture
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC21722CurrentCertificate II in Permaculture

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.

  • AHC21716AHC21722not equivalent23 January 2023

    Changes to packaging rules and updated codes and titles of units. Changed work health and safety unit from HLTWHS001 Participate in workplace health and safety to AHCWHS202 Participate in workplace health and safety processes

Is AHC21716 on your scope?

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What AHC21716 is made of

training.gov.au lists 20 units for AHC21716: 6 core and 14 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCPER201Work effectively in permaculturenot current
AHCPER203Record information about the local bioregionnot current
AHCPER206Plant and maintain permaculture cropsnot current
AHCPER209Recognise characteristics of integrated plant and animal systemsnot current
AHCPER212Use and maintain garden hand tools and equipmentnot current
HLTWHS001Participate in workplace health and safetycurrent

Elective units 14 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCILM203Record information about Countrynot current
AHCINF203Maintain properties and structuresnot current
AHCMOM203Operate basic machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCNAR201Carry out natural area restoration worksnot current
AHCPER202Harvest, treat and store seednot current
AHCPER204Check and operate permaculture water systemsnot current
AHCPER205Prepare and store permaculture productsnot current
AHCPER207Care for animals in a permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER208Harvest permaculture cropsnot current
AHCPER214Propagate plants for a permaculture garden systemnot current
AHCPER215Assist with garden soil health and plant nutritionnot current
AHCWRK201Observe and report on weathernot current
AHCWRK203Operate in isolated and remote situationsnot 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 28 August 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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