AHC42116 Certificate IV in Permaculture

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC42116 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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 4 · 13 February 2021 · 4 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
AHC42122 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. AHC42116Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Permaculture
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC42122CurrentCertificate IV 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.

  • AHC42116AHC42122not equivalent23 January 2023

    Changes to equivalency of core units

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What AHC42116 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for AHC42116: 5 core and 18 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 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCPER401Provide advice on permaculture principles and practicesnot current
AHCPER404Plan and implement permaculture worksnot current
AHCPER405Select appropriate technology for a permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER406Identify and analyse bioregional characteristics and resourcesnot current
AHCPER413Evaluate suitability of species as solutions for permaculture applicationsnot current

Elective units 18 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCBUS407Cost a projectcurrent
AHCBUS408Operate within a budget frameworkcurrent
AHCCCF405Develop community networksnot current
AHCORG402Manage organic livestock productionnot current
AHCORG403Manage organic soil improvementnot current
AHCORG404Arrange selling through community based marketingnot current
AHCPER307Establish a rural permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER308Establish an urban permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER402Design a rural permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER403Design an urban permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER407Design harvesting and storage systems for permaculture productsnot current
AHCPER408Implement and monitor animal health and welfare programs for a permaculture systemnot current
AHCPER409Manage a permaculture seed banknot current
AHCPER410Recommend approaches for sustainable community and bioregional developmentnot current
AHCPER411Operate within a sustainable community and bioregional development programnot current
AHCSAW401Set out conservation earthworksnot current
AHCSOL402Develop a soil use map for a propertynot current
TAEDEL301Provide work skill instructionnot 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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