BSBSMB403 Market the small business

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBSMB403 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
BSBSMB403A
Superseded by
BSBESB404 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. BSBSMB403Superseded — equivalentMarket the small business
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBESB404CurrentMarket new business ventures

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.

  • BSBSMB403ABSBSMB403equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBSMB403BSBESB404equivalent18 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 BSBSMB403 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 BSBSMB403 on your scope?

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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 BSBSMB403 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBSMB403 inside 62 training products, 18 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBSMB403 in that product.

Current products 18 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB403 is
AHCSS00077Pollination Services Skill SetSkill setelective
CHC41015Certificate IV in CelebrancyQualificationelective
CPP41319Certificate IV in Swimming Pool and Spa ServiceQualificationelective
HLT52115Diploma of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Remedial MassageQualificationelective
HLT52215Diploma of Shiatsu and Oriental TherapiesQualificationelective
HLT52315Diploma of Clinical AromatherapyQualificationelective
HLT52415Diploma of KinesiologyQualificationelective
HLT52515Diploma of ReflexologyQualificationelective
HLT52615Diploma of Ayurvedic Lifestyle ConsultationQualificationelective
HLT62615Advanced Diploma of AyurvedaQualificationelective
ICP31220Certificate III in PrintingQualificationelective
ICP50120Diploma of Printing and Graphic Arts Business ManagementQualificationelective
RGR40118Certificate IV in Racing (Racehorse Trainer)Qualificationelective
RGR40419Certificate IV in Greyhound Racing IndustryQualificationelective
RGR50118Diploma of Racing (Racehorse Trainer)Qualificationelective
RII40920Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
SFI40119Certificate IV in AquacultureQualificationelective
SHB50216Diploma of Salon ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 44 listed

The register still records BSBSMB403 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 productTypeBSBSMB403 is
ACM40317Certificate IV in Companion Animal ServicesQualificationelective
ACM40617Certificate IV in Pet StylingQualificationelective
AHC32716Certificate III in Rural MerchandisingQualificationelective
AHC42216Certificate IV in Shearing ContractingQualificationelective
BSB40415Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationcore
BSB42515Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationelective
BSB42518Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationelective
BSB42615Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationcore
BSB42618Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationcore
BSBSS00054Small Business Marketing Skill SetSkill setelective
Show the remaining 34 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB403 is
CPP40507Certificate IV in Property Services (Business Broking)Qualificationelective
CPP40811Certificate IV in Access ConsultingQualificationelective
CPP41212Certificate IV in NatHERS AssessmentQualificationelective
CUA40313Certificate IV in Dance Teaching and ManagementQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40915Certificate IV in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA50118Diploma of Professional Writing and EditingQualificationelective
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
CUA60715Advanced Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
FBP30117Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP30217Certificate III in Plant BakingQualificationelective
FBP30617Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
HLT42015Certificate IV in Massage TherapyQualificationelective
HLT47815Certificate IV in Optical DispensingQualificationelective
HLT52015Diploma of Remedial MassageQualificationelective
ICP30415Certificate III in Printing and Graphic Arts (Digital Printing)Qualificationelective
ICP31215Certificate III in PrintingQualificationelective
ICP50115Diploma of Printing and Graphic ArtsQualificationelective
MSF40213Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF50113Diploma of Stained Glass and LeadlightingQualificationelective
MSF50118Diploma of Stained Glass and LeadlightingQualificationelective
RGR40418Certificate IV in Racing (Greyhound Trainer)Qualificationelective
RII40115Certificate IV in Surface Extraction OperationsQualificationelective
RII40715Certificate IV in Civil Construction SupervisionQualificationelective
RII40915Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
SFL40115Certificate IV in FloristryQualificationelective
SFL50115Diploma of Floristry DesignQualificationelective
SHB30215Certificate III in Make-UpQualificationelective
SHB30315Certificate III in Nail TechnologyQualificationelective
SHB50115Diploma of Beauty TherapyQualificationelective
SIS40215Certificate IV in FitnessQualificationelective
SIT50216Diploma of Holiday Park and Resort ManagementQualificationelective
SIT50316Diploma of Event ManagementQualificationelective

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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