PSP41604 Certificate IV in Government (Security)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PSP41604 ended on 30 October 2012 — 13 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 1 November 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
Qualification
Training package
PSP04 — Public Sector Training Package
Currency period ends
30 October 2012
Latest release
Release 2 · 7 March 2012 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
PSP41612 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. PSP41604Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Government (Security)
  2. equivalent
  3. PSP41612Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Government (Security)
  4. not equivalent
  5. PSP40316CurrentCertificate IV in Government Security

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.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PSP41604 and for its training package PSP04 (release 4.2), 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.

  • PSP41604_R2.pdfPSP41604 release 2 · product document · published 20 July 2012
  • PSP41604_R2.docxPSP41604 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PSP41604 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.

What PSP41604 is made of

training.gov.au lists 13 units for PSP41604. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. 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.

Units listed 13 listed

CodeUnitCore or electiveIn this product
PSPETHC401AUphold and support the values and principles of public serviceN/Anot current
PSPGOV402BDeliver and monitor service to clientsN/Anot current
PSPGOV408AValue diversityN/Anot current
PSPGOV412AUse advanced workplace communication strategiesN/Anot current
PSPGOV422AApply government processesN/Anot current
PSPLEGN401AEncourage compliance with legislation in the public sectorN/Anot current
PSPOHS301AContribute to workplace safetyN/Anot current
PSPOHS401BImplement workplace safety procedures and programsN/Anot current
PSPPOL404ASupport policy implementationN/Anot current
PSPSEC401AUndertake government security risk analysisN/Anot current
PSPSEC402AImplement security risk treatmentsN/Anot current
PSPSEC403ADevelop and advise on government security proceduresN/Anot current
PSPSEC405AHandle security classified informationN/Anot current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "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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