Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF41512?

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 24 January 2014. 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 DEF41512?

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).

DEF41512 Certificate IV in Defence Paralegal Services

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.

DEF41512Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Defence Paralegal Services
equivalent
DEF42812Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Defence Paralegal Services
not equivalent
DEF40717Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Defence Paralegal Services
equivalent
DEF40722CurrentCertificate IV in Defence Paralegal 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.

PUA41506DEF41512equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF41512DEF42812equivalent23 January 2013
Structure and packaging rules changed

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF41512 and for its training package DEF12 (release 2.0), 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.

DEF41512_R1.pdfDEF41512 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
DEF41512_R1.docxDEF41512 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF41512 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF41512 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 DEF41512 is made of

training.gov.au lists 30 units for DEF41512. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 30 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSACS301A	Apply the principles of confidentiality and security within the legal environment	`N/A`	not current
BSACS401A	Provide non-legal advice	`N/A`	not current
BSALC301A	Use legal terminology in order to carry out tasks	`N/A`	not current
BSALC401A	Interact with other parties	`N/A`	not current
BSALC402A	Research, locate and provide legal and other information in response to requests	`N/A`	not current
BSALF301A	Maintain records for time and disbursements in a legal practice	`N/A`	not current
BSALLG401A	Arrange documents and list exhibits for litigation support	`N/A`	not current
BSALO301A	Assist in prioritising and planning activities in a legal practice	`N/A`	not current
BSALPP301A	Apply knowledge of the legal system to complete tasks	`N/A`	not current
BSALPP302A	Carry out search of the public record	`N/A`	not current
BSALPP303A	Deliver court documentation	`N/A`	not current
BSALPP501A	Obtain information from a client	`N/A`	not current
BSALR301A	Handle receipt and despatch of information	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
DEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	`N/A`	not current
DEFEQ002B	Supervise equity and diversity in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL001B	Provide support in service discipline and criminal law matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL003B	Provide support in administrative law matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL005B	Provide support in operations law matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL007B	Provide support in contract law matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL009B	Provide support in environmental law matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL011B	Provide support in legal assistance matters	`N/A`	not current
DEFPL012B	Assess civil claims	`N/A`	not current
DEFRI001B	Treat risk within Defence at an operational level	`N/A`	not current
DEFRI002B	Conduct risk assessment in a Defence environment	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV201B	Work in a public sector environment	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV202B	Use routine workplace communication techniques	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV302B	Contribute to workgroup activities	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV422A	Apply government processes	`N/A`	not current
PSPOHS201B	Follow workplace safety procedures	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "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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