CPC50408 Diploma of Plumbing and Services

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CPC50408 ended on 5 February 2013 — 13 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 7 February 2014 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
CPC08 — Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package
Currency period ends
5 February 2013
Latest release
Release 1 · 19 May 2011
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
CPC50412 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. CPC50408Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Plumbing and Services
  2. not equivalent
  3. CPC50412Deleted from the registerDiploma of Plumbing and Services

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: CPC50412 is the last product it points at, and CPC50412 is not marked current either.

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.

  • CPC50408CPC50412not equivalent6 February 2013

    Revised qualification deemed not equivalent to CPC50408 A number of core units updated and deemed not equivalent to previous version Core and elective units revised resulting in a number of unit identifier changes

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What CPC50408 is made of

training.gov.au lists 40 units for CPC50408. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 40 listed

CodeUnitCore or electiveIn this product
BSBCUS501BManage quality customer serviceN/Anot current
BSBFIM501AManage budgets and financial plansN/Anot current
BSBMGT515AManage operational planN/Anot current
BSBOHS504BApply principles of OHS risk managementN/Anot current
BSBPMG505AManage project qualityN/Anot current
BSBPMG508AManage project riskN/Anot current
BSBWOR502BEnsure team effectivenessN/Anot current
CPCCBC4034AApply codes and standards to building trade and services contractingN/Anot current
CPCCBC5002AMonitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projectsN/Anot current
CPCCBC5010BManage construction workN/Anot current
CPCCSV6010AApply fire technology to buildings up to three storeysN/Anot current
CPCPCM5000ADesign complex sanitary plumbing and drainage systemsN/Anot current
CPCPCM5001ADesign complex cold water systemsN/Anot current
CPCPCM5002BDesign complex stormwater and roof drainage systemsN/Anot current
CPCPCM5003BDesign complex (non-solar) heated water systemsN/Anot current
CPCPCM5004ADesign sewer systemsN/Anot current
CPCPFS5000ADesign fire-compliant hydraulic servicesN/Anot current
CPCPFS5001ADesign fire sprinkler systemsN/Anot current
CPCPFS5002ADesign fire hydrant and hose reel systemsN/Anot current
CPCPMS5000ADesign steam distribution systemsN/Anot current
CPCPMS5001ADesign air conditioning and ventilation systemsN/Anot current
CPCPMS5002ADesign sound attenuated hydraulic servicesN/Anot current
CPCPMS5003ADesign hydronic heating and cooling systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5000ADesign gas bulk storage systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5001ADesign industrial gas systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5002ADesign gas reticulation systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5003ADesign solar water heating systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5004AConduct a water audit and identify water-saving initiativesN/Anot current
CPCPPS5005ADesign grey water re-use systems in sewered areasN/Anot current
CPCPPS5006ADesign rainwater collection, storage, distribution and re-use systemsN/Anot current
Show the remaining 10 units
CodeUnitCore or electiveIn this product
CPCPPS5007ADesign irrigation systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5008ADesign trade waste pre-treatment systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5009AAnalyse and report on technical plumbing systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5010ADesign pump systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5011ACoordinate services and penetrations within a buildingN/Anot current
CPCPPS5012ADesign siphonic stormwater drainage systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5013ADesign vacuum sewerage systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5014ALocate and maintain piping systemsN/Anot current
CPCPPS5015AInspect plumbing and drainage systemsN/Anot current
CPCSUS5001ADevelop workplace policies and procedures for sustainabilityN/Anot current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

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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