When must new enrolments into PUA21012 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 July 2020 — 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in PUA21012?

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).

PUA21012 Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)

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.

PUA21012Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)
not equivalent
PUA20119CurrentCertificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)

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.

PUA21010PUA21012equivalent16 August 2012
Packaging rules wording reviewed. Units updated. Elective groupings changed.
PUA21012PUA20119not equivalent15 July 2019
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is PUA21012 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA21012 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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.

What PUA21012 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for PUA21012: 5 core and 18 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 5 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
HLTFA211A	Provide basic emergency life support	not current
PUACOM001C	Communicate in the workplace	not current
PUASAR013A	Participate in an aquatic rescue operation	not current
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	not current
PUATEA004D	Work effectively in a public safety organisation	not current

Elective units 18 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	not current
PUAEQU001B	Prepare, maintain and test response equipment	not current
PUAOHS001C	Follow defined occupational health and safety policies and procedures	not current
PUAOPE009C	Navigate in an aquatic environment	not current
PUAOPE013A	Operate communications systems and equipment	not current
PUASAR012C	Apply surf awareness and self-rescue skills	not current
PUASES012A	Work as a team member in an emergency operations centre	not current
PUAVEH001B	Drive vehicles under operational conditions	not current
SISCAQU202A	Perform basic water rescues	not current
SISCAQU306A	Supervise clients at an aquatic facility or environment	not current
SISCAQU312A	Assist participants with a disability during aquatic activities	not current
TDMMC807B	MANOEUVRE A VESSEL WITHIN THE LIMITS OF RESPONSIBILITY OF A MASTER 5	not current
TDMMF1107B	SURVIVE AT SEA IN THE EVENT OF VESSEL ABANDONMENT	not current
TDMMF5407A	OBSERVE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ON A COASTAL VESSEL	not current
TDMMF5507A	FIGHT AND EXTINGUISH FIRES ON BOARD A COASTAL VESSEL	not current
TDMMF5607A	OBSERVE PERSONAL SAFETY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES	not current
TDMMF6207A	PREVENT, CONTROL AND FIGHT FIRES ON BOARD AN OCEAN-GOING VESSEL	not current
TDMMR4307B	ASSIST IN MOORING AND ANCHOR HANDLING ACTIVITIES	not current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "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 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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