BSBITU401A Design and develop complex text documents

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBITU401A ended on 23 March 2015 — 11 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 25 March 2016. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
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Superseded by
BSBITU401 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. BSBITU401ASuperseded — equivalentDesign and develop complex text documents
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBITU401Superseded — equivalentDesign and develop complex text documents
  4. equivalent
  5. BSBTEC401CurrentDesign and produce complex text documents

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 BSBITU401A and for its training package BSB07 (release 9.0), 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 BSBITU401A on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether BSBITU401A 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 BSBITU401A is used

training.gov.au lists BSBITU401A inside 14 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBITU401A in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBITU401A is
DEF51115Diploma of LeadershipQualificationelective

Products no longer current 13 listed

The register still records BSBITU401A 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 productTypeBSBITU401A is
BSB40207Certificate IV in BusinessQualificationelective
BSB40212Certificate IV in BusinessQualificationelective
BSB40507Certificate IV in Business AdministrationQualificationelective
BSB40707Certificate IV in FranchisingQualificationelective
BSB41007Certificate IV in Human ResourcesQualificationelective
BSB41013Certificate IV in Human ResourcesQualificationelective
BSB41107Certificate IV in International TradeQualificationelective
BSB41607Certificate IV in PurchasingQualificationelective
BSB41707Certificate IV in RecordkeepingQualificationelective
BSB41807Certificate IV in Unionism and Industrial RelationsQualificationelective
Show the remaining 3 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBITU401A is
CUS40309Certificate IV in Music BusinessQualificationelective
CUV40311Certificate IV in DesignQualificationelective
CUV40511Certificate IV in Arts AdministrationQualificationelective

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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