Can an RTO still enrol new students in MAR40313?

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 7 October 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 MAR40313?

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).

MAR40313 Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres)

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.

MAR40313Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres)
equivalent
MAR40613Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres Near Coastal)
equivalent
MAR40618Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres Near Coastal)
equivalent
MAR40320Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)
not equivalent
MAR40324CurrentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)

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.

TDM40307MAR40313equivalent5 June 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
MAR40313MAR40613equivalent6 October 2013
MAR40313 supersedes and is equivalent to TDM40307 - CERTIFICATE IV IN TRANSPORT & DISTRIBUTION (COASTAL MARITIME OPERATIONS - MASTER CLASS 4)

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MAR40313 and for its training package MAR13 (release 1.0), 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.

MAR40313_R1.pdfMAR40313 release 1 · product document · published 6 June 2013
MAR40313_R1.docxMAR40313 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is MAR40313 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MAR40313 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 MAR40313 is made of

training.gov.au lists 22 units for MAR40313: 22 core and 0 elective. 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.

Core units 22 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
HLTFA403C	Manage first aid in the workplace	not current
MARA4001A	Manage loading, discharging and stowage of cargo	not current
MARA4002A	Manage vessel stability	not current
MARB3005A	Slip or dock a vessel and maintain hull on a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARB4005A	Plan and supervise routine maintenance on a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARC4001A	Manage a propulsion unit using appropriate engine systems and support services	not current
MARC4002A	Monitor and manage vessel operations	not current
MARC4004A	Operate deck machinery and steering gear on a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARF1001A	Apply basic survival skills in the event of vessel abandonment	not current
MARF1002A	Follow procedures to minimise and fight fires on board a vessel	not current
MARF1005A	Meet work health and safety requirements	not current
MARF1006A	Survive at sea using survival craft	not current
MARF3007A	Work safely in confined spaces on a vessel	not current
MARG4001A	Manage a small crew	not current
MARH3002A	Manage and maintain a navigational watch on board vessels up to 80 metres	not current
MARH3003A	Plan and navigate a passage for a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARH3004A	Use wheelhouse equipment for safe navigation	not current
MARH4001A	Forecast weather and oceanographic conditions	not current
MARI3001A	Observe regulations to ensure safe operation of a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARJ3001A	Monitor environmental management on a vessel	not current
MARK4001A	Manoeuvre a vessel up to 80 metres	not current
MARN4001A	Manage seaworthiness of a vessel up to 80 metres	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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