CUFRES401A Conduct research

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for CUFRES401A ended on 13 January 2016 — 10 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 15 January 2017. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
CUF07 — Screen and Media Training Package
Currency period ends
13 January 2016
Latest release
Release 1 · 29 October 2010
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
CUARES402 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. CUFRES401ASuperseded — equivalentConduct research
  2. equivalent
  3. CUARES402Superseded — equivalentConduct research
  4. equivalent
  5. CUARES412CurrentConduct research

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.

  • CUFRES401ACUARES402equivalent14 January 2016

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for CUFRES401A and for its training package CUF07 (release 1.2), 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 CUFRES401A on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether CUFRES401A sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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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 CUFRES401A is used

training.gov.au lists CUFRES401A inside 27 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for CUFRES401A in that product.

Products no longer current 27 listed

The register still records CUFRES401A 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 productTypeCUFRES401A is
CUE40403Certificate IV in Venues and Events (Customer Service)Qualificationelective
CUE50403Diploma of Venues and EventsQualificationelective
CUF40107Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUF40207Certificate IV in Interactive Digital MediaQualificationelective
CUF40407Certificate IV in Make-upQualificationelective
CUF40507Certificate IV in Costume for PerformanceQualificationelective
CUF40607Certificate IV in Scenery and Set ConstructionQualificationelective
CUF50107Diploma of Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUF50207Diploma of Interactive Digital MediaQualificationelective
CUF50307Diploma of Broadcast TechnologyQualificationelective
Show the remaining 17 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeCUFRES401A is
CUF50407Diploma of Specialist Make-up ServicesQualificationelective
CUF50507Diploma of Costume for PerformanceQualificationelective
CUS40109Certificate IV in MusicQualificationelective
CUS40209Certificate IV in Sound ProductionQualificationelective
CUS40309Certificate IV in Music BusinessQualificationelective
CUS50109Diploma of MusicQualificationelective
CUS50209Diploma of Sound ProductionQualificationelective
CUS50309Diploma of Music BusinessQualificationelective
CUV40111Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUV40211Certificate IV in Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUV40411Certificate IV in Photo ImagingQualificationelective
CUV40511Certificate IV in Arts AdministrationQualificationelective
CUV50111Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUV50211Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
CUV50613Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Industry WorkQualificationelective
MEM50311Diploma of Jewellery and Object DesignQualificationelective
MEM60211Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object DesignQualificationelective

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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