Can an RTO still enrol new students in FNS50611?

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 25 March 2016. 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in FNS50611?

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).

FNS50611 Diploma of Financial Planning

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.

FNS50611Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Financial Planning
equivalent
FNS50615Deleted from the registerDiploma of Financial Planning

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: FNS50615 is the last product it points at, and FNS50615 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.

FNS50610FNS50611equivalent15 January 2012
OHS unit BSBOHS303B removed from core as not required at this level; packaging rules adjusted to reflect the unit removal - OUTCOMES EQUIVALENT
FNS50611FNS50615equivalent24 March 2015
Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for FNS50611 and for its training package FNS10 (release 5.1), 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.

FNS50611_R4.pdfFNS50611 release 4 · product document · published 11 December 2013
FNS50611_R4.docxFNS50611 release 4 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is FNS50611 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether FNS50611 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.

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.

What FNS50611 is made of

training.gov.au lists 32 units for FNS50611: 0 core and 2 elective, and 30 units it marks neither. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Elective units 2 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBCUS501C	Manage quality customer service	not current
BSBSMB405B	Monitor and manage small business operations	not current

Units the register marks neither core nor elective 30 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBINM401A	IMPLEMENT WORKPLACE INFORMATION SYSTEM	`N/A`	not current
BSBITU402A	Develop and use complex spreadsheets	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS501A	Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability	`N/A`	not current
FNSASIC301C	Establish client relationship and analyse needs	`N/A`	not current
FNSASIC302C	Develop, present and negotiate client solutions	`N/A`	not current
FNSASICQ503A	Provide advice in First Home Saver Market Linked Accounts	`N/A`	not current
FNSASICU503A	Provide advice in Superannuation	`N/A`	not current
FNSASICX503A	Provide advice in Life Insurance	`N/A`	not current
FNSASICY503A	Provide advice in Insurance Broking	`N/A`	not current
FNSASICZ503A	Provide advice in Financial Planning	`N/A`	not current
FNSCUS501A	Develop and nurture relationships with clients, other professionals and third party referrers	`N/A`	not current
FNSCUS502A	Monitor client requirements	`N/A`	not current
FNSCUS503A	Review business performance	`N/A`	not current
FNSCUS505A	Determine client requirements and expectations	`N/A`	not current
FNSCUS506A	Record and implement client instructions	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL501A	Comply with financial planning practice ethical and operational guidelines and regulations	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL502A	Conduct financial planning analysis and research	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL503A	Develop and prepare financial plan	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL504A	Implement financial plan	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL505A	Review financial plans and provide ongoing service	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL506A	Determine client requirements and expectations	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL507A	Provide financial planning advice	`N/A`	not current
FNSFPL508A	Conduct complex financial planning research	`N/A`	not current
FNSIAD501A	Provide appropriate services, advice and products to clients	`N/A`	not current
FNSIBK403A	Implement an agreed insurance program for a broking client	`N/A`	not current
FNSIBK506A	Monitor broking clients	`N/A`	not current
FNSIBK507A	Review broking client service performance	`N/A`	not current
FNSIBK508A	Implement changes to broking client's insurance program	`N/A`	not current
FNSINC401A	Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry	`N/A`	not current
FNSINC501A	Conduct product research to support recommendations	`N/A`	not current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "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 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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