Can an RTO still enrol new students in RII31209?

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 14 November 2014. 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 RII31209?

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).

RII31209 Certificate III in Civil Foundations

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.

RII31209Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Civil Foundations
not equivalent
RII31213Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Civil Foundations
equivalent
RII31215Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Civil Foundations
equivalent
RII31220CurrentCertificate III in Civil Foundations

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.

RII31209RII31213not equivalent13 November 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for RII31209 and for its training package RII09 (release 3.2), 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.

RII31209_R2.pdfRII31209 release 2 · product document · published 20 July 2012
RII31209_R2.docxRII31209 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024
RII09 User Guide - SUPERSEDEDCompanion Volume Supporting Material · RII09 release 3.2 · DOC · 1 March 2016

Is RII31209 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII31209 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 RII31209 is made of

training.gov.au lists 40 units for RII31209. 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 40 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
AHCSAW201A	Conduct erosion and sediment control activities	`N/A`	not current
AHCSAW301A	Construct conservation earthworks	`N/A`	not current
RIIBEF201B	Plan and organise work	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM201A	Carry out measurements and calculations	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM202A	Identify, locate and protect underground services	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM203A	Read and interpret plans and specifications	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM205A	Carry out manual excavation	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM207A	Spread and compact materials manually	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM208A	Carry out basic levelling	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM209A	Carry out concrete work	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM210A	Install trench support	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM211A	Erect and dismantle temporary fencing and gates	`N/A`	not current
RIICCM301A	Construct and dismantle fences and gates	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW301A	Construct underpinning	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW302A	Install temporary and permanent rock anchors	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW303A	Install primary ground support	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW304A	Conduct pile driving operations	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW305A	Conduct cast in-situ pilings operations	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW306A	Direct pile driving operations	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW307A	Direct cast in-situ piling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIICOM201A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
RIICRC306A	Conduct earthworks	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN208A	Perform dogging	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN211A	Conduct basic scaffolding operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN301B	Operate elevating work platform	`N/A`	not current
RIIIMG301A	Maintain site records	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB202A	Set up/pack up drill site	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS201A	Work safely and follow OHS policies and procedures	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS202A	Enter and work in confined spaces	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS205A	Control traffic with stop-slow bat	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 10 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIIOHS302A	Implement traffic management plan	`N/A`	not current
RIIQUA201A	Maintain and monitor site quality standards	`N/A`	not current
RIIRIS201B	Conduct local risk control	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM201A	Handle resources and infrastructure materials and safely dispose of non toxic materials	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM203B	Use hand and power tools	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM204B	Operate small plant and equipment	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM205A	Cut, weld and bend materials	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM213A	Position and set up mobile lighting	`N/A`	not current
RIIWMG203A	Drain and dewater civil construction site	`N/A`	not current
RIIWMG301A	Control construction site water table	`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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