Can an RTO still enrol new students in PUA42109?

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 15 March 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in PUA42109?

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).

PUA42109 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Intelligence Operations)

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.

PUA42109Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Intelligence Operations)
equivalent
DEF42112Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Intelligence Operations
not equivalent
DEF40217CurrentCertificate IV in Intelligence Operations

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.

PUA42109DEF42112equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA42109 and for its training package PUA00 (release 8.1), 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.

PUA42109_R1.pdfPUA42109 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
PUA42109_R1.docxPUA42109 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PUA42109 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA42109 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 PUA42109 is made of

training.gov.au lists 58 units for PUA42109. 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 58 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBADV402B	Conduct pre campaign testing	`N/A`	not current
BSBADV605B	Evaluate campaign effectiveness	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMM401A	Make a presentation	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM305C	Support operational plan	`N/A`	not current
BSBITA401A	Design databases	`N/A`	not current
BSBITU402A	Develop and use complex spreadsheets	`N/A`	not current
BSBLED401A	Develop teams and individuals	`N/A`	not current
BSBMKG401B	Profile the market	`N/A`	not current
BSBOHS407A	Monitor a safe workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR402A	Promote team effectiveness	`N/A`	not current
BSBWRT401A	Write complex documents	`N/A`	not current
BSBWRT501A	Write persuasive copy	`N/A`	not current
CPPSEC4003A	Advise on security needs	`N/A`	not current
CPPSEC4006A	Assess risks	`N/A`	not current
CPPSEC4007A	Assess threat	`N/A`	not current
CPPSEC4012A	Identify and assess security of assets	`N/A`	not current
CPPSEC4013A	Undertake case management of investigations	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV272A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV307B	Organise workplace information	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV403B	Use resources to achieve work unit goals	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV404B	Develop and implement work unit plans	`N/A`	not current
PSPPM401B	Design simple projects	`N/A`	not current
PSPPM402B	Manage simple projects	`N/A`	not current
PSPPM403B	Close simple projects	`N/A`	not current
PSPPROC406A	Procure goods and services	`N/A`	not current
PSPREG418A	Advise on progress of investigations	`N/A`	not current
PSPREG419A	Finalise and report on investigations	`N/A`	not current
PSPREG502A	Coordinate investigation processes	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC401A	Undertake government security risk analysis	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 28 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PSPSEC402A	Implement security risk treatments	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC403A	Develop and advise on government security procedures	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC404A	Conduct personnel security assessments	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC406A	Provide government security briefings	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC502A	Develop security risk management plans	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC503A	Implement and monitor security risk management plans	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC504A	Coordinate protective security	`N/A`	not current
PSPSEC506A	Communicate security awareness	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM007B	Liaise with other organisations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM004B	Instruct a workplace physical training session in Defence	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM008B	Provide technical advice	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM107B	Supervise a section during defensive operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM108B	Supervise a section during offensive operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM113C	Perform the duties of a defending officer	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM114C	Perform the duties of a prosecuting officer	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM116C	Provide advice on service discipline law	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM118B	Act as a range safety officer on a permanent range	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM119B	Conduct basic range practices on a permanent range	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM120C	Conduct individual and collective ceremonial drill	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEQ002B	Supervise equity and diversity in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFIN007A	Supervise intelligence operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFIN008A	Plan and lead a counter-surveillance operation	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFRI001B	Treat risk within Defence at an operational level	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFRI002B	Conduct risk assessment in a Defence environment	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA002B	Work autonomously	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS301B	Contribute to assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAADEL301C	Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills	`N/A`	not current
TLIU107B	Implement and monitor environmental protection policies and procedures	`N/A`	not 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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