Can an RTO still enrol new students in LMF30502?

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 10 December 2014. 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 LMF30502?

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).

LMF30502 Certificate III in Furniture Making (Wood Machining)

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.

LMF30502Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Furniture Making (Wood Machining)
not equivalent
MSF30313Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Timber and Composites Machining
not equivalent
MSF30322CurrentCertificate III in Cabinet Making and Timber Technology

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.

LMF30502MSF30313not equivalent9 December 2013
Not equivalent

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for LMF30502 and for its training package LMF02 (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.

LMF30502_R1.docxLMF30502 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
LMF30502_R1.pdfLMF30502 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012

Is LMF30502 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether LMF30502 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 LMF30502 is made of

training.gov.au lists 45 units for LMF30502. 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 45 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
LMFFF2004B	Prepare surfaces for finishing	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2001B	Use furniture making sector hand and power tools	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2002B	Assemble furnishing components	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2003B	Select and apply hardware	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2004B	Apply sheet laminates by hand	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2005B	Join solid timber	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2006B	Hand make timber joints	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2007B	Follow plans to assemble production furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2008B	Bend and form cane	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2009B	Construct cane furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2010B	Set up, operate and maintain basic static machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2011B	Apply manufactured board conversion techniques	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM2012B	Set up, operate and maintain pressure and clamping machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3001B	Construct chair and couch frames	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3002B	Construct furniture using leg and rail method	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3003B	Produce angled and curved furniture using manufactured board	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3004B	Produce angled and curved furniture using solid timber	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3005B	Fabricate custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3006B	Install furnishing	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3007B	Prepare and apply decorative surfaces for furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3010B	Select timbers for furniture production	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3011B	Produce manual and computer-aided production drawings	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3012B	Prepare cutting list from plans and job specifications	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3013B	Measure and draw site layout for manufactured furniture products	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3020B	Set up, operate and maintain sawing machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3021B	Set up, operate and maintain drilling machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3022B	Set up, operate and maintain joining machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3023B	Set up, operate and maintain planing and finishing machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3024B	Set up, operate and maintain multi-head planing and moulding machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3025B	Set up, operate and maintain routing and shaping machines	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 15 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
LMFFM3026B	Set up, operate and maintain mechanical wood turning lathes	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3027B	Set up, operate and maintain automated edge banding machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3028B	Fabricate synthetic solid surface products	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3030B	Set up, operate and maintain CNC sizing machines	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3031B	Set up, operate and maintain CNC machining and processing centres	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3032B	Produce and maintain cutting tools	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM3033B	Construct jigs and fixtures	`N/A`	not current
LMFGN3001B	Read and interpret work documents	`N/A`	not current
LMFGN3002B	Estimate and cost job	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV272B	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMOHS200A	Work safely	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMOPS101A	Make measurements	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMSUP102A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMSUP106A	Work in a team	`N/A`	not current
TLID307E	Handle dangerous goods/hazardous substances	`N/A`	not 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 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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