When must new enrolments into RII31709 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 21 March 2013 — 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 RII31709?

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).

RII31709 Certificate III in Tunnel Construction

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.

RII31709Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Tunnel Construction
equivalent
RII30912Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Civil Construction
not equivalent
RII30913Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Civil Construction
not equivalent
RII30915Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Civil Construction
equivalent
RII30919Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Civil Construction

The chain does not end here: we draw five steps at most, and training.gov.au points on from RII30919 to RII30920, which it flags equivalent to RII30919. Follow it from that page.

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.

RII31709RII30912equivalent20 March 2012
Replaced by RII30912

Is RII31709 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII31709 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 RII31709 is made of

training.gov.au lists 41 units for RII31709. 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 41 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
CPCCCM2007A	Use explosive power tools	`N/A`	not current
RIIBEF201B	Plan and organise work	`N/A`	not current
RIIBLA202B	Support underground shotfiring operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIBLA205A	Store, handle and transport explosives	`N/A`	not current
RIIBLA303A	Conduct underground development shotfiring	`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
RIICCM206A	Support plant operations	`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
RIICFW302A	Install temporary and permanent rock anchors	`N/A`	not current
RIICFW303A	Install primary ground support	`N/A`	not current
RIICOM201A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
RIICRC201A	Repair potholes	`N/A`	not current
RIICRC203A	Install sub-soil drainage	`N/A`	not current
RIICRC208A	Lay pipes	`N/A`	not current
RIICRC301A	Maintain drainage systems	`N/A`	not current
RIICTC301A	Install tunnelling constructions services	`N/A`	not current
RIICTC302A	Line tunnel	`N/A`	not current
RIICTC303A	Excavate tunnel by machine	`N/A`	not current
RIICTC304A	Muck out tunnel earthworks	`N/A`	not current
RIICTC305A	Construct portals	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN208A	Perform dogging	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN211A	Conduct basic scaffolding operations	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 11 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIIHAN301B	Operate elevating work platform	`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
RIIOHS302A	Implement traffic management plan	`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
RIISAM203A	Use hand and power tools	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM204A	Operate small plant and equipment	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM205A	Cut, weld and bend materials	`N/A`	not current
RIIWMG203A	Drain and dewater civil construction site	`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 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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