MSACMT251A Apply quality standards

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSACMT251A ended on 30 April 2012 — 14 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 2 May 2013. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
MSA07 — Manufacturing Training Package
Currency period ends
30 April 2012
Latest release
Release 1 · 1 September 2008
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
MSS402051A 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. MSACMT251ASuperseded — equivalentApply quality standards
  2. equivalent
  3. MSS402051ASuperseded — equivalentApply quality standards
  4. equivalent
  5. MSS402051Superseded — equivalentApply quality standards
  6. equivalent
  7. MSS402055CurrentApply quality 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.

  • MSACMT251AMSS402051Aequivalent1 May 2012

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSACMT251A and for its training package MSA07 (release 8.4), 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.

Is MSACMT251A on your scope?

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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 MSACMT251A is used

training.gov.au lists MSACMT251A inside 57 training products, 4 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MSACMT251A in that product.

Current products 4 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMSACMT251A is
MSA30208Certificate III in Manufacturing TechnologyQualificationelective
MSA40108Certificate IV in Manufacturing TechnologyQualificationelective
MSA50108Diploma of Manufacturing TechnologyQualificationelective
MSA60108Advanced Diploma of Manufacturing TechnologyQualificationelective

Products no longer current 53 listed

The register still records MSACMT251A 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 productTypeMSACMT251A is
AUM20112Certificate II in Automotive Manufacturing Production - Passenger Motor VehicleQualificationelective
AUM20212Certificate II in Automotive Manufacturing Production - Bus, Truck and TrailerQualificationelective
AUM40112Certificate IV in Automotive ManufacturingQualificationelective
AUM45108Certificate IV in Automotive Manufacturing (Bus/Truck/Trailer)Qualificationelective
DEF21212Certificate II in Explosive Ordnance ManufactureQualificationelective
DEF32312Certificate III in Explosive Ordnance ManufactureQualificationelective
FDF20110Certificate II in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FDF20111Certificate II in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FDF20210Certificate II in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
FDF20211Certificate II in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
Show the remaining 43 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeMSACMT251A is
FDF20411Certificate II in Wine Industry OperationsQualificationelective
FDF20911Certificate II in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
FDF30110Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FDF30111Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FDF30210Certificate III in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
FDF30310Certificate III in Plant BakingQualificationelective
FDF30411Certificate III in Wine Industry OperationsQualificationelective
FDF30910Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
FDFSS00017Risk ManagementSkill setelective
FPI20710Certificate II in Timber Truss and Frame Design and ManufactureQualificationelective
FPI20711Certificate II in Timber Truss and Frame Design and ManufactureQualificationelective
FPP30110Certificate III in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
FPP30210Certificate III in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
FPP40110Certificate IV in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
FPP40210Certificate IV in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
LMF20309Certificate II in Furniture MakingQualificationelective
LMF32009Certificate III in Kitchens and Bathrooms (Client Services)Qualificationelective
LMF32109Certificate III in Cabinet MakingQualificationelective
LMFSS00003SS1 Insulated Glass Unit (IGU) ManufacturingSkill setelective
LMFSS00004SS2 Insulated Glass Unit (IGU) Installer/FabricatorSkill setelective
MEM40412Certificate IV in Engineering DraftingQualificationelective
MSA20107Certificate II in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA20208Certificate II in Manufacturing TechnologyQualificationelective
MSA21108Certificate II in Competitive ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA30107Certificate III in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA31108Certificate III in Competitive ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA40311Certificate IV in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA41108Certificate IV in Competitive ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA51108Diploma of Competitive ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSA61108Advanced Diploma of Competitive ManufacturingQualificationelective
PMA20108Certificate II in Process Plant OperationsQualificationelective
PMA30108Certificate III in Process Plant OperationsQualificationelective
PMA40108Certificate IV in Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMB20107Certificate II in Polymer ProcessingQualificationelective
PMB30107Certificate III in Polymer ProcessingQualificationelective
PMB40107Certificate IV in Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective
PMC20110Certificate II in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
PMC30110Certificate III in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
PMC40110Certificate IV in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
PUA21210Certificate II in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Manufacture)Qualificationelective
PUA32310Certificate III in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Manufacture)Qualificationelective
SFI20511Certificate II in Seafood ProcessingQualificationelective
SFI30511Certificate III in Seafood ProcessingQualificationelective

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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