AHC31210 Certificate III in Retail Nursery

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for AHC31210 ended on 25 June 2016 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 27 June 2017 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
AHC10 — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management
Currency period ends
25 June 2016
Latest release
Release 3 · 15 October 2012 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
RTF30503
Superseded by
AHC31216 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. AHC31210Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Retail Nursery
  2. equivalent
  3. AHC31216Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Retail Nursery
  4. not equivalent
  5. AHC31120Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Nursery Operations
  6. not equivalent
  7. AHC31124CurrentCertificate III 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.

  • RTF30503AHC31210not equivalent9 June 2011

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • AHC31210AHC31216equivalent26 June 2016

    This qualification is equivalent to AHC31210 Certificate III in Retail Nursery.

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What AHC31210 is made of

training.gov.au lists 33 units for AHC31210: 10 core and 23 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 10 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCNSY301AMaintain nursery plantsnot current
AHCNSY302AReceive and dispatch nursery productsnot current
AHCNSY303AInstall and maintain plant displaysnot current
AHCOHS301AContribute to OHS processesnot current
AHCPCM302AProvide information on plants and their culturenot current
AHCPCM303AIdentify plant specimensnot current
AHCPMG302AControl plant pests, diseases and disordersnot current
AHCWRK313AImplement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practicesnot current
SIRXCCS202Interact with customersnot current
SIRXMER303Coordinate merchandise presentationnot current

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCCHM303APrepare and apply chemicalsnot current
AHCCHM304ATransport, handle and store chemicalsnot current
AHCMER301AProcess customer complaintsnot current
AHCMER302AProvide advice on hardware productsnot current
AHCMER303ASell products and servicesnot current
AHCNSY304ADeliver and promote sales of plantsnot current
AHCPCM301AImplement a plant nutrition programnot current
AHCPMG301AControl weedsnot current
AHCSOL401ASample soils and interpret resultsnot current
AHCWRK303ARespond to emergenciesnot current
AHCWRK305ACoordinate work site activitiesnot current
BSBCUS301BDeliver and monitor a service to customersnot current
BSBPRO301ARecommend products and servicesnot current
BSBSLS402AIdentify sales prospectsnot current
SIRXADM002ACoordinate retail officenot current
SIRXINV002AMaintain and order stocknot current
SIRXINV004ABuy merchandisenot current
SIRXMER201Merchandise productsnot current
SIRXMER202Plan, create and maintain displaysnot current
SIRXMER406Monitor in-store visual merchandising displaynot current
SIRXRSK002AMaintain store securitynot current
SIRXSLS002AAdvise on products and servicesnot current
SIRXSLS303Build relationships with customersnot 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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