BSBDES305 Source and apply information on the history and theory of design

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBDES305 ended on 14 April 2021 — 5 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 16 April 2022. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
14 April 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
BSBDES305A
Superseded by
CUADES305 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. BSBDES305Superseded — equivalentSource and apply information on the history and theory of design
  2. equivalent
  3. CUADES305CurrentSource and apply information on the history and theory of design

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.

  • BSBDES305ABSBDES305equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBDES305CUADES305equivalent15 April 2021

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for BSBDES305 and for its training package BSB (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.

Is BSBDES305 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether BSBDES305 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.

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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 BSBDES305 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBDES305 inside 25 training products, 3 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBDES305 in that product.

Current products 3 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES305 is
MSF31018Certificate III in Interior Decoration Retail ServicesQualificationelective
MSF40318Certificate IV in Kitchen and Bathroom DesignQualificationelective
SIR50217Diploma of Visual MerchandisingQualificationelective

Products no longer current 22 listed

The register still records BSBDES305 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 productTypeBSBDES305 is
AHC42016Certificate IV in LandscapeQualificationelective
CUA30415Certificate III in Live Production and ServicesQualificationelective
CUA30515Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA30715Certificate III in Design FundamentalsQualificationelective
CUA30915Certificate III in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA31115Certificate III in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40415Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40715Certificate IV in DesignQualificationcore
CUA41115Certificate IV in Photography and Photo ImagingQualificationelective
Show the remaining 12 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES305 is
CUA41315Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
ICP40815Certificate IV in ePublishingQualificationelective
MSF31013Certificate III in Interior Decoration Retail ServicesQualificationelective
MSF31313Certificate III in Kitchens and Bathrooms - Retail ServicesQualificationelective
MSF40113Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
MSF40118Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
MSF40213Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF40313Certificate IV in Design of Kitchens, Bathrooms and Interior SpacesQualificationelective
MSF50213Diploma of Interior Design and DecorationQualificationelective
MSF50218Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective
MSF60113Advanced Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective
MSF60118Advanced Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective

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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