BSBSMB301 Investigate micro business opportunities

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSBSMB301 ended on 17 October 2020 — 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 19 October 2021. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding BSBESB301 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

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
BSBSMB301A
Superseded by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. BSBSMB301Superseded — not equivalentInvestigate micro business opportunities
  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.

  • BSBSMB301ABSBSMB301equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBSMB301BSBESB301not equivalent18 October 2020

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for BSBSMB301 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 BSBSMB301 on your scope?

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Where BSBSMB301 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBSMB301 inside 44 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBSMB301 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB301 is
CPP30619Certificate III in Investigative ServicesQualificationelective
ICP31220Certificate III in PrintingQualificationelective

Products no longer current 42 listed

The register still records BSBSMB301 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 productTypeBSBSMB301 is
BSB30315Certificate III in Micro Business OperationsQualificationcore
BSB42615Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
BSB42618Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
BSBSS00054Small Business Marketing Skill SetSkill setelective
CPC30111Certificate III in Bricklaying/BlocklayingQualificationelective
CPC30116Certificate III in ShopfittingQualificationelective
CPC30211Certificate III in CarpentryQualificationelective
CPC30511Certificate III in DoggingQualificationelective
CPC30611Certificate III in Painting and DecoratingQualificationelective
CPC30711Certificate III in RiggingQualificationelective
Show the remaining 32 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB301 is
CPC30812Certificate III in Roof TilingQualificationelective
CPC30911Certificate III in ScaffoldingQualificationelective
CPC31011Certificate III in Solid PlasteringQualificationelective
CPC31111Certificate III in SteelfixingQualificationelective
CPC31211Certificate III in Wall and Ceiling LiningQualificationelective
CPC31311Certificate III in Wall and Floor TilingQualificationelective
CPC31411Certificate III in Construction WaterproofingQualificationelective
CPC31511Certificate III in Formwork/FalseworkQualificationelective
CPC31611Certificate III in PavingQualificationelective
CPC31912Certificate III in JoineryQualificationelective
CPC32011Certificate III in Carpentry and JoineryQualificationelective
CPC32211Certificate III in Joinery (Stairs)Qualificationelective
CPC32313Certificate III in Stonemasonry (Monumental/Installation)Qualificationelective
CPP30607Certificate III in Investigative ServicesQualificationelective
CUA30515Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA30915Certificate III in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA31115Certificate III in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40313Certificate IV in Dance Teaching and ManagementQualificationelective
CUA40415Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40915Certificate IV in Music IndustryQualificationcore
CUA41115Certificate IV in Photography and Photo ImagingQualificationelective
CUA41215Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationcore
CUA41315Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
FBP30117Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP30217Certificate III in Plant BakingQualificationelective
FBP30617Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
ICP30415Certificate III in Printing and Graphic Arts (Digital Printing)Qualificationelective
ICP31215Certificate III in PrintingQualificationelective
SIS30613Certificate III in Sport Career Oriented ParticipationQualificationelective
SIS30913Certificate III in Sport OfficiatingQualificationelective

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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