DEFCM008B Provide technical advice

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for DEFCM008B ended on 20 October 2015 — 10 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 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.

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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
Unit of competency
Training package
DEF12 — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
20 October 2015
Latest release
Release 2 · 24 January 2013 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
DEFGEN012 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. DEFCM008BSuperseded — equivalentProvide technical advice
  2. equivalent
  3. DEFGEN012CurrentProvide technical advice

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.

  • DEFCM008BDEFGEN012equivalent21 October 2015

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is DEFCM008B on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEFCM008B 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.

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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.

Where DEFCM008B is used

training.gov.au lists DEFCM008B inside 13 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for DEFCM008B in that product.

Products no longer current 13 listed

The register still records DEFCM008B inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeDEFCM008B is
DEF41212Certificate IV in Armoured OperationsQualificationelective
DEF41312Certificate IV in Artillery OperationsQualificationelective
DEF41712Certificate IV in Infantry OperationsQualificationelective
DEF41812Certificate IV in Military EngineeringQualificationelective
DEF42112Certificate IV in Intelligence OperationsQualificationcore
DEF42312Certificate IV in Preventive HealthQualificationcore
DEF42412Certificate IV in Test and EvaluationQualificationcore
DEF42512Certificate IV in Work Health SafetyQualificationcore
DEF42612Certificate IV in Military Land OperationsQualificationcore
DEF42712Certificate IV in Military Land EngineeringQualificationcore
Show the remaining 3 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeDEFCM008B is
DEF51412Diploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and ExperimentalQualificationelective
DEF51512Diploma of Military LeadershipQualificationelective
DEF52312Diploma of Work Health SafetyQualificationcore

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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