PSPSEC404A Conduct personnel security assessments

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PSPSEC404A ended on 5 March 2016 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 7 March 2017 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
PSP04 — Public Sector Training Package
Currency period ends
5 March 2016
Latest release
Release 3 · 1 November 2012 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
PSPSEC008 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. PSPSEC404ASuperseded — equivalentConduct personnel security assessments
  2. equivalent
  3. PSPSEC008Superseded — equivalentConduct personnel security assessments
  4. equivalent
  5. PSPSEC023CurrentConduct personnel security assessments

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.

  • PSPSEC404APSPSEC008equivalent6 March 2016

    Unit code updated. Content and formatting updated to comply with the new standards. All PC transitioned from passive to active voice. PC 2.1 and 2.2, PC 2.3 and 2.4 merged. PC 3.3 removed. Assessment Requirements created drawing upon specified assessment information from superseded unit.

Is PSPSEC404A on your scope?

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Where PSPSEC404A is used

training.gov.au lists PSPSEC404A inside 4 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for PSPSEC404A in that product.

Products no longer current 4 listed

The register still records PSPSEC404A 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 productTypePSPSEC404A is
DEF42112Certificate IV in Intelligence OperationsQualificationelective
PSP41704Certificate IV in Government (Personnel Security)Qualificationelective
PSP41712Certificate IV in Government (Personnel Security)Qualificationelective
PUA42109Certificate IV in Public Safety (Intelligence Operations)Qualificationelective

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 28 August 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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