When must new enrolments into DEF21112 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 22 October 2016 — 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in DEF21112?

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).

DEF21112 Certificate II in Military Skills

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.

DEF21112Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Military Skills
not equivalent
DEF21115Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Military Skills
not equivalent
DEF20326CurrentCertificate II in Defence Skills

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.

PUA21110DEF21112equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF21112DEF21115not equivalent21 October 2015
Supersedes DEF21112 Certificate II in Military Skills. Not equivalent.

Is DEF21112 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF21112 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 DEF21112 is made of

training.gov.au lists 25 units for DEF21112: 5 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 5 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBCMM101A	Apply basic communication skills	not current
BSBOHS201A	Participate in OHS processes	not current
DEFCM101C	Operate a service rifle	not current
DEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	not current
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	not current

Elective units 20 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBADM101A	Use business equipment and resources	not current
BSBCMM201A	Communicate in the workplace	not current
BSBITU101A	Operate a personal computer	not current
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
DEFCA416C	Employ hand operated pyrotechnics	not current
DEFCM001B	Use personal camouflage and concealment in a threat environment	not current
DEFCM002C	Operate night fighting equipment	not current
DEFCM102C	Operate a light support weapon	not current
DEFCM103C	Operate a service hand grenade	not current
DEFCM104C	Operate in a threat environment	not current
DEFCM105C	Participate in ceremonial activities	not current
DEFCM106C	Display the attributes of an Australian soldier	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	not current
ICAU1133B	Send and retrieve information using web browsers and email	not current
PSPGOV201B	Work in a public sector environment	not current
PSPGOV204B	Access and use resources	not current
PSPGOV207B	Use technology in the workplace	not current
PUACOM005B	Foster a positive organisational image in the community	not current
PUAOPE013A	Operate communications systems and equipment	not current
PUATEA005A	Manage own professional performance	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 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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