BSBSMB201 Identify suitability for micro business

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSBSMB201 ended on 17 October 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 19 October 2021 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
17 October 2020
Latest release
Release 2 · 14 January 2016 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
BSBSMB201A
Superseded by
BSBESB301 not 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. BSBSMB201Superseded — not equivalentIdentify suitability for micro business
  2. not equivalent
  3. BSBESB301CurrentInvestigate business opportunities

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.

  • BSBSMB201ABSBSMB201equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBSMB201BSBESB301not equivalent18 October 2020

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

Is BSBSMB201 on your scope?

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Where BSBSMB201 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBSMB201 inside 11 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBSMB201 in that product.

Products no longer current 11 listed

The register still records BSBSMB201 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 productTypeBSBSMB201 is
BSB20115Certificate II in BusinessQualificationelective
BSB30315Certificate III in Micro Business OperationsQualificationelective
BSB42615Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
BSB42618Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
BSBSS00055Small Business Operations Preparatory Skill SetSkill setelective
CUA20415Certificate II in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA20615Certificate II in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA20715Certificate II in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA30515Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA31115Certificate III in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
Show the remaining 1 product no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB201 is
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective

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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