BSBSMB409 Build and maintain relationships with small business stakeholders

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSBSMB409 ended on 17 October 2020 — 5 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 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
BSBSMB409A
Superseded by
BSBESB404 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. BSBSMB409Superseded — not equivalentBuild and maintain relationships with small business stakeholders
  2. not 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.

  • BSBSMB409ABSBSMB409equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBSMB409BSBESB404not equivalent18 October 2020

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

Is BSBSMB409 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 BSBSMB409 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBSMB409 inside 12 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBSMB409 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB409 is
CUA50620Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts Industry WorkQualificationelective
SHB50216Diploma of Salon ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 10 listed

The register still records BSBSMB409 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 productTypeBSBSMB409 is
BSB40415Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationelective
BSB42515Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationelective
BSB42518Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationelective
BSB42615Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
BSB42618Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationelective
CUA50615Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Industry WorkQualificationelective
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
FNS60615Advanced Diploma of Banking Services ManagementQualificationcore
FNS60620Advanced Diploma of Banking Services ManagementQualificationcore

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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