Can an RTO still enrol new students in FWP20516?

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 25 January 2024. 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 FWP20516?

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).

FWP20516 Certificate II in Timber Manufactured Products

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.

FWP20516Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Timber Manufactured Products
not equivalent
FWP20322CurrentCertificate II in Timber and Wood Products Operations

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.

FPI20511FWP20516equivalent12 May 2016
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
FWP20516FWP20322not equivalent24 January 2023
Qualification merged with FWP20316 Certificate II in Sawmilling and Processing. Title changed. Revised packaging rules. Reduced the number of core units. Revised the structure (groups) of the elective units. Imported elective units from other training packages. Added new units and revised existing units

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for FWP20516 and for its training package FWP (release 9.2), 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.

FWP20516_R4.pdfFWP20516 release 4 · product document · published 12 February 2021
FWP20516_R4.docxFWP20516 release 4 · product document · published 26 November 2024
FWP release 9.2 Companion Volume V16 April 2026 (Implementation Guide)Companion Volume · FWP release 9.2 · PDF · 8 April 2026

Is FWP20516 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether FWP20516 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 FWP20516 is made of

training.gov.au lists 41 units for FWP20516: 5 core and 36 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
FWPCOR2201	Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry	not current
FWPCOR2202	Communicate and interact effectively in the workplace	not current
FWPCOR2203	Follow environmental care procedures	not current
FWPCOR2205	Follow WHS policies and procedures	not current
FWPCOR2207	Maintain quality and product care	not current

Elective units 36 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
AHCMOM207	Conduct front-end loader operations	current
BSBINS201	Process and maintain workplace information	current
BSBTEC201	Use business software applications	current
FWPCOT2209	Produce finger jointed timber	not current
FWPCOT2231	Pack products	not current
FWPCOT2234	Dock material to length	not current
FWPCOT2240	Cut material with a pole saw	not current
FWPCOT2243	Tail out timber product and waste material	current
FWPCOT2244	Operate and maintain a thicknesser	current
FWPCOT2245	Operate and maintain a table saw	not current
FWPCOT2246	Appearance grade hardwood sawn and milled products	current
FWPCOT2249	Visually stress grade hardwood	current
FWPCOT2250	Visually stress grade softwood	current
FWPCOT2251	Visually stress grade cypress	current
FWPCOT2255	Store materials	current
FWPCOT2257	Use hand-held tools	current
FWPCOT2258	Assemble products	current
FWPCOT2260	Tally material	current
FWPCOT2261	Process orders and prepare for despatch	current
FWPCOT2262	Cut material to shape using a saw	current
FWPCOT3259	Operate a four wheel drive on unsealed roads	not current
FWPCOT3263	Maintain and contribute to energy efficiency	not current
FWPCOT3302	Access and provide timber and wood product information	current
FWPCOT3320	Build and maintain timber stacks	current
FWPSAW2212	Assemble materials using nail plates	current
FWPTMM2204	Machine material	current
FWPTMM2205	Cut material to length and angles	current
HLTAID011	Provide First Aid	current
MSFGG2011	Glaze and reglaze residential windows and doors	current
MSS402001	Apply competitive systems and practices	not current

Show the remaining 6 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
TLIC2002	Drive light rigid vehicle	current
TLIC3003	Drive medium rigid vehicle	current
TLID0007	Operate specialised load shifting equipment	current
TLID2004	Load and unload goods/cargo	not current
TLID2010	Operate a forklift	not current
TLILIC0003	Licence to operate a forklift truck	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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