TAAASS404B Participate in assessment validation

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for TAAASS404B ended on 16 July 2008 — 18 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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 18 July 2009. 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.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
TAA04 — Training and Assessment Training Package
Currency period ends
16 July 2008
Latest release
Release 1 · 1 October 2004
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
TAEASS403A 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. TAAASS404BSuperseded — equivalentParticipate in assessment validation
  2. equivalent
  3. TAEASS403ASuperseded — equivalentParticipate in assessment validation
  4. equivalent
  5. TAEASS403BSuperseded — not equivalentParticipate in assessment validation
  6. not equivalent
  7. TAEASS403Superseded — not equivalentParticipate in assessment validation
  8. not equivalent
  9. TAEASS413CurrentParticipate in assessment validation

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.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for TAAASS404B and for its training package TAA04 (release 1.0), 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.

Is TAAASS404B on your scope?

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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.

Where TAAASS404B is used

training.gov.au lists TAAASS404B inside 27 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for TAAASS404B in that product.

Products no longer current 27 listed

The register still records TAAASS404B 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 productTypeTAAASS404B is
DEF50812Diploma of Defence ChaplaincyQualificationelective
DEF51112Diploma of Defence Paralegal ServicesQualificationelective
DEF51712Diploma of Test and EvaluationQualificationelective
DEF52212Diploma of ComplianceQualificationelective
PMC40110Certificate IV in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
PRM30406Certificate III in Asset Maintenance (Fire Protection Equipment)Qualificationelective
PRM40509Certificate IV in Asset Maintenance (Waste Management)Qualificationelective
PRM40704Certificate IV in Asset Maintenance (Fire Safety Systems Inspection)Qualificationelective
PUA30410Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA30510Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Operations)Qualificationelective
Show the remaining 17 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeTAAASS404B is
PUA40210Certificate IV in Public Safety (SES Leadership)Qualificationelective
PUA40301Certificate IV in Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision)Qualificationelective
PUA41004Certificate IV in Public Safety (Leadership)Qualificationelective
PUA41104Certificate IV in Public Safety (Community Safety)Qualificationelective
PUA42710Certificate IV in Public Safety (Emergency Communications Centre Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA50410Diploma of Public Safety (SES Operations Management)Qualificationelective
PUA50806Diploma of Public Safety (Defence Chaplaincy)Qualificationelective
PUA50904Diploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)Qualificationelective
PUA51106Diploma of Public Safety (Defence Paralegal Services)Qualificationelective
PUA51709Diploma of Public Safety (Test and Evaluation)Qualificationelective
PUA52210Diploma of Public Safety (Compliance)Qualificationelective
RII40109Certificate IV in Surface Extraction OperationsQualificationelective
RII40311Certificate IV in Metalliferous Mining Operations (Underground)Qualificationelective
RII40509Certificate IV in Resource ProcessingQualificationelective
RII40909Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
RII41109Certificate IV in Drilling Oil/Gas (On shore)Qualificationelective
WRH40109Certificate IV in HairdressingQualificationelective

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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