Can an RTO still enrol new students in CPP40216?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 13 January 2022. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in CPP40216?

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).

CPP40216 Certificate IV in Surveying

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.

CPP40216Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Surveying
equivalent
CPP41721CurrentCertificate IV in Surveying and Spatial Information Services

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.

CPP40112CPP40216equivalent5 May 2016
Replaces superseded equivalent CPP40112 Certificate IV in Surveying.
CPP40216CPP41721equivalent12 January 2021
Supersedes and is equivalent to CPP40216 Certificate IV in Surveying

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for CPP40216 and for its training package CPP (release 18.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

CPP40216_R1.docxCPP40216 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
CPP40216_R1.pdfCPP40216 release 1 · product document · published 6 May 2016
CPP Companion Volume Release 18.0Companion Volume · CPP release 18.0 · DOCX · 4 February 2026

Is CPP40216 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether CPP40216 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What CPP40216 is made of

training.gov.au lists 16 units for CPP40216: 6 core and 10 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

Code	Unit	In this product
CPPSIS4025	Collect spatial data using GNSS	not current
CPPSIS4027	Organise surveying field services	not current
CPPSIS4031	Perform surveying computations	not current
CPPSIS4037	Produce computer-aided drawings	not current
CPPSIS4040	Collect spatial data using terrestrial technologies	not current
CPPSIS4041	Set out site and building works	not current

Elective units 10 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
CPPCMN4002	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
CPPCMN4003	Establish, develop and monitor teams	current
CPPSIS4022	Store and retrieve spatial data	not current
CPPSIS4026	Digitally enhance and process image data	not current
CPPSIS4030	Operate surveying equipment	not current
CPPSIS4032	Conduct field surveying operations	not current
CPPSIS4036	Operate spatial software applications	not current
CPPSIS4038	Prepare and present GIS data	not current
CPPSIS4039	Design and produce maps	not current
CPPSIS5060	Develop spreadsheets for spatial data	not 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 14 October 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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