Can an RTO still enrol new students in MARF3005A?

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 MARF3005A?

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).

MARF3005A Prevent and fight fires on board a vessel

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.

MARF3005ASuperseded — equivalentPrevent and fight fires on board a vessel
equivalent
MARF008Superseded — equivalentPrevent and fight fires on board a vessel
equivalent
MARF035CurrentContribute to fire prevention and firefighting (basic firefighting)

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.

TDMMF6207AMARF3005Aequivalent5 June 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
MARF3005AMARF008equivalent6 October 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MARF3005A 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.

MARF3005A_R1.docxMARF3005A release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
MARF3005A_R1.pdfMARF3005A release 1 · product document · published 6 June 2013

Is MARF3005A on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MARF3005A 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.

Where MARF3005A is used

training.gov.au lists MARF3005A inside 9 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MARF3005A in that product.

Products no longer current 9 listed

The register still records MARF3005A 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.

Code	Training product	Type	MARF3005A is
MAR30113	Certificate III in Maritime Operations (Integrated Rating)	Qualification	core
MAR30713	Certificate III in Maritime Operations (Marine Cookery)	Qualification	core
MAR40113	Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Chief Integrated Rating)	Qualification	core
MAR50313	Diploma of Maritime Operations (Watchkeeper Deck)	Qualification	core
MAR50413	Diploma of Maritime Operations (Master up to 500 GT or Master 80 metres)	Qualification	core
MAR60113	Advanced Diploma of Maritime Operations (Marine Engineering Class 2)	Qualification	core
MAR60213	Advanced Diploma of Maritime Operations (Master Unlimited)	Qualification	core
MAR60313	Advanced Diploma of Maritime Operations (Marine Engineering Class 1)	Qualification	core
MARSS00002	Safety Training Certification Skill Set	Skill set	elective

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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