BSBDES403A Develop and extend design skills and practice

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBDES403A ended on 23 March 2015 — 11 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 25 March 2016 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
BSB07 — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
23 March 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 10 March 2009
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
BSBDES403 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. BSBDES403ASuperseded — equivalentDevelop and extend design skills and practice
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBDES403Superseded — equivalentDevelop and extend design skills and practice
  4. equivalent
  5. CUADES413CurrentDevelop and extend design skills and practice

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.

Is BSBDES403A on your scope?

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Where BSBDES403A is used

training.gov.au lists BSBDES403A inside 30 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBDES403A in that product.

Products no longer current 30 listed

The register still records BSBDES403A 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 productTypeBSBDES403A is
AHC40410Certificate IV in HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC40510Certificate IV in Parks and GardensQualificationelective
CUA40413Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
CUE60103Advanced Diploma of Design for Live Production, Theatre and EventsQualificationelective
CUF40107Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUF40207Certificate IV in Interactive Digital MediaQualificationelective
CUF40607Certificate IV in Scenery and Set ConstructionQualificationelective
CUF50107Diploma of Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUF50207Diploma of Interactive Digital MediaQualificationelective
Show the remaining 20 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES403A is
CUF50407Diploma of Specialist Make-up ServicesQualificationelective
CUF50507Diploma of Costume for PerformanceQualificationelective
CUF50607Diploma of Scenery and Set ConstructionQualificationelective
CUV40111Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUV40211Certificate IV in Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUV40311Certificate IV in DesignQualificationelective
CUV40411Certificate IV in Photo ImagingQualificationelective
CUV40611Certificate IV in Opal Cutting and PolishingQualificationelective
CUV50311Diploma of Graphic DesignQualificationelective
LMF40408Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
LMF40508Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
LMF50408Diploma of Interior Design and DecorationQualificationelective
LMF50508Diploma of Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
LMF60208Advanced Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective
LMF60308Advanced Diploma of Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF40113Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
MSF40213Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF50213Diploma of Interior Design and DecorationQualificationelective
MSF50313Diploma of Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF60113Advanced 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 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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