AHC60516 Advanced Diploma of Arboriculture

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC60516 ended on 24 August 2020 — 6 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 26 August 2021 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
24 August 2020
Latest release
Release 2 · 14 September 2016 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
AHC60520 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. AHC60516Superseded — not equivalentAdvanced Diploma of Arboriculture
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC60520Superseded — equivalentAdvanced Diploma of Arboriculture
  4. equivalent
  5. AHC60524CurrentAdvanced Diploma of Arboriculture

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.

  • AHC60516AHC60520not equivalent25 August 2020

    Entry requirements changed. Packaging rules, core and electives units changed

Is AHC60516 on your scope?

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What AHC60516 is made of

training.gov.au lists 27 units for AHC60516: 7 core and 20 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 7 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCARB601Examine and assess treesnot current
AHCARB602Diagnose tree diseasesnot current
AHCARB603Interpret diagnostic test resultsnot current
AHCARB604Measure and improve the performance of urban forestsnot current
AHCARB605Provide consultation in a legal frameworknot current
AHCARB606Develop an operational tree management plannot current
AHCWRK507Implement professional practicenot current

Elective units 20 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCARB507Generate tree plans using computer-aided design softwarenot current
AHCARB607Review and develop strategic tree policynot current
AHCLPW601Coordinate the preparation of a regional resource management plannot current
AHCNRM507Manipulate and analyse data within geographic information systemsnot current
AHCPCM601Develop and implement a plant health management strategynot current
AHCWRK502Collect and manage datanot current
AHCWRK603Design and conduct a field-based research trialnot current
BSBCOM602Develop and create compliance requirementsnot current
BSBMGT616Develop and implement strategic plansnot current
BSBMGT617Develop and implement a business plannot current
FWPCOT6204Use carbon accounting to estimate emissionsnot current
FWPCOT6205Prepare an enterprise carbon management reportnot current
FWPCOT6207Develop forest management systems and processesnot current
FWPFGM6203Manage sustainable tree inventorynot current
LGACOMP008AApply conflict resolution strategiesnot current
LGAGCM710AManage contracts and contractorsnot current
LGAPLEM512AProvide geographic information systems datanot current
LGAPLEM612BProtect heritage and cultural assetsnot current
MSL975017Perform laboratory-based ecological techniquesnot current
PSPPCY010Manage policy implementationnot 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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