Can an RTO still enrol new students in ACM40310?

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 29 November 2018. 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 ACM40310?

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).

ACM40310 Certificate IV in Companion Animal Services

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.

ACM40310Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Companion Animal Services
equivalent
ACM40317Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Companion Animal Services
not equivalent
ACM40321Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Animal Behaviour and Training
not equivalent
ACM40322CurrentCertificate IV in Animal Behaviour and Training

training.gov.au publishes 2 replacements for ACM40317. This rail follows ACM40321; the other: ACM40221.

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.

RUV40304ACM40310not equivalent10 November 2010
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
ACM40310ACM40317equivalent28 November 2017
Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages Changes to Group B electives SIRXMER405 unit deleted from SIR07 training package

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for ACM40310 and for its training package ACM10 (release 3.0), 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.

ACM40310_R3.pdfACM40310 release 3 · product document · published 7 December 2012
ACM40310_R3.docxACM40310 release 3 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is ACM40310 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether ACM40310 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 ACM40310 is made of

training.gov.au lists 35 units for ACM40310: 3 core and 32 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 3 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
ACMCAS401A	Manage compliance in the companion animal industry	not current
ACMGAS301A	Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing	not current
ACMOHS401A	Maintain occupational health and safety processes	not current

Elective units 32 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
ACMCAN311A	Care for young animals	not current
ACMCAS402A	Manage and maintain aviaries and bird rooms	not current
ACMCAS403A	Design, construct and maintain aquascapes	not current
ACMCAS404A	Develop enrichment strategies for companion animals	not current
ACMCAS405A	Purchase companion animal livestock	not current
ACMCAS406A	Manage companion animal breeding	not current
ACMCAS407A	Provide professional companion animal grooming services	not current
ACMCAS408A	Manage the operation of a mobile hydro-bathing facility	not current
ACMCAS409A	Provide training advice to companion animal owners	not current
ACMCAS410A	Conduct companion animal training classes	not current
ACMGAS306A	Assist with conditioning animals	not current
ACMSPE301A	Provide basic care of amphibians	not current
ACMSPE302A	Provide basic care of birds	not current
ACMSPE303A	Provide basic care of common native mammals	not current
ACMSPE304A	Provide basic care of dogs	not current
ACMSPE305A	Provide basic care of domestic cats	not current
ACMSPE306A	Provide basic care of marine fish	not current
ACMSPE307A	Provide basic care of freshwater fish	not current
ACMSPE308A	Provide basic care of marine aquatic invertebrates	not current
ACMSPE309A	Provide basic care of terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	not current
ACMSPE310A	Provide basic care of mammals	not current
ACMSPE311A	Provide basic care of non-venomous reptiles	not current
ACMSPE312A	Provide basic care of rodents and rabbits	not current
ACMSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
ACMVET411A	Prepare, deliver and review animal care education programs	not current
BSBSMB403A	Market the small business	not current
BSBSMB405B	Monitor and manage small business operations	not current
BSBSMB407A	Manage a small team	not current
BSBWOR402A	Promote team effectiveness	not current
SIRXINV005A	Control inventory	not current

Show the remaining 2 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
SIRXMER004A	Manage merchandise and store presentation	not current
TAEDEL402A	Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace	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 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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