AHC32616 Certificate III in Rural Machinery Operations

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC32616 ended on 17 December 2018 — 7 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 19 December 2019 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
17 December 2018
Latest release
Release 1 · 27 June 2016
Supersedes
AHC32610
Superseded by
AHC31918 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. AHC32616Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Rural Machinery Operations
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC31918Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Rural Machinery Operations

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: AHC31918 is the last product it points at, and AHC31918 is not marked current either.

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.

  • AHC32610AHC32616not equivalent26 June 2016

    This qualification is not equivalent to AHC32610 Certificate III in Rural Machinery Operations

  • AHC32616AHC31918not equivalent18 December 2018

    Unit added to the core and update elective units of competency and imported unit codes.

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What AHC32616 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for AHC32616: 6 core and 17 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
AHCMOM301Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repaircurrent
AHCMOM302Perform machinery maintenancecurrent
AHCMOM304Operate machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM305Operate specialised machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCWHS301Contribute to work health and safety processesnot current
AHCWRK309Apply environmentally sustainable work practicesnot current

Elective units 17 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCMOM211Operate side by side utility vehiclesnot current
AHCMOM212Operate quad bikesnot current
AHCMOM306Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorantcurrent
AHCMOM307Operate a cane harvestercurrent
AHCMOM308Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM309Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM310Operate land-forming machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM311Operate precision control technologycurrent
AHCMOM312Operate row crop planting and seeding machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM313Operate mobile irrigation machinery and equipmentcurrent
AHCMOM314Transport machinerycurrent
AHCWRK303Respond to emergenciesnot current
AHCWRK304Respond to rescue incidentsnot current
AHCWRK305Coordinate work site activitiesnot current
MEM05004CPerform routine oxy acetylene weldingnot current
MEM05007CPerform manual heating and thermal cuttingnot current
MEM05012CPerform routine manual metal arc weldingnot 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.

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