MEM15017B Use and maintain reference standards

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEM15017B ended on 17 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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 19 December 2023. 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.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
MEM05 — Metal and Engineering Training Package
Currency period ends
17 December 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 1 December 2005
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
MEM15017 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. MEM15017BSuperseded — equivalentUse and maintain reference standards
  2. equivalent
  3. MEM15017CurrentUse and maintain reference standards

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.

  • MEM15017BMEM15017equivalent18 December 2022

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MEM15017B and for its training package MEM05 (release 11.1), 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.

  • MEM15017B_R1.pdfMEM15017B release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
  • MEM15017B_R1.docxMEM15017B release 1 · product document · published 1 January 1901

Is MEM15017B on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MEM15017B 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 MEM15017B is used

training.gov.au lists MEM15017B inside 12 training products, 4 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MEM15017B in that product.

Current products 4 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMEM15017B is
MEA50522Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationcore
MEA60322Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MEM40119Certificate IV in EngineeringQualificationelective
MEM50119Diploma of Engineering - Advanced TradeQualificationelective

Products no longer current 8 listed

The register still records MEM15017B 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 productTypeMEM15017B is
MEA50511Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationelective
MEA50515Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationcore
MEA50518Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationcore
MEA60311Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationelective
MEA60315Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MEA60318Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MEM40105Certificate IV in EngineeringQualificationelective
MEM50105Diploma of Engineering - Advanced TradeQualificationelective

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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