Can an RTO still enrol new students in LMF40508?

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 LMF40508?

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).

LMF40508 Certificate IV in Furniture Design and Technology

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.

LMF40508Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Furniture Design and Technology
not equivalent
MSF40213Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Furniture Design and Technology
not equivalent
MSF40222CurrentCertificate IV in Furniture Design and Manufacturing

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.

LMF40508MSF40213not equivalent9 December 2013
Not equivalent

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for LMF40508 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.

LMF40508_R1.docxLMF40508 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
LMF40508_R1.pdfLMF40508 release 1 · product document · published 3 August 2012

Is LMF40508 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether LMF40508 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 LMF40508 is made of

training.gov.au lists 51 units for LMF40508. 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 51 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCRT401A	Articulate, present and debate ideas	`N/A`	not current
BSBCRT402A	Collaborate in a creative process	`N/A`	not current
BSBCRT403A	Explore the history and social impact of creativity	`N/A`	not current
BSBCRT501A	Originate and develop concepts	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES301A	Explore the use of colour	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES303A	Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES305A	Source and apply information on the history and theory of design	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES401A	Generate design solutions	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES403A	Develop and extend design skills and practice	`N/A`	not current
BSBPMG510A	Manage projects	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB403A	Market the small business	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB404A	Undertake small business planning	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB407A	Manage a small team	`N/A`	not current
CUFDIG303A	Produce and prepare photo images	`N/A`	not current
CUFDIG304A	Create visual design components	`N/A`	not current
CUVCOR09B	Select and apply drawing techniques and media to represent and communicate the concept	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS03B	Produce computer-aided drawings	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS04B	Produce technical drawings	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4001A	Apply finishing techniques to custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4002A	Assemble custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4003A	Assess and record the lifecycle of a product	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4004A	Assess environmental impact of a design	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4005A	Construct and evaluate furniture prototypes and samples	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4006A	Establish and maintain a safe furniture making work environment	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4007A	Establish the design brief	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4008A	Determine occupational health and safety implications of designs	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4009A	Prepare and present furniture design information	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4010A	Produce and evaluate developmental furniture models to scale	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4011A	Set up, operate and maintain basic static woodworking machines for furniture designs	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4012A	Produce ideation drawings	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 21 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
LMFFDT4013A	Research and select furniture finishes	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4014A	Research and select furniture materials and technology	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4015A	Research furniture styles and movements	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4016A	Select, use and maintain hand tools for the creation of custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4017A	Set up and operate a wood turning lathe to produce off-centre work	`N/A`	not current
LMFFDT4018A	Produce templates and jigs for custom made furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM4005A	Hand carve wood to custom design	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM4006A	Construct joints for custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM4007A	Produce curved and shaped components for custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFM4008A	Produce timber veneered components for custom furniture	`N/A`	not current
LMFFT4010B	Identify and calculate production costs	`N/A`	not current
LMFFT4011B	Purchase materials and consumables	`N/A`	not current
MEM15001B	Perform basic statistical quality control	`N/A`	not current
MEM16008A	Interact with computing technology	`N/A`	not current
MEM16013A	Operate in a self-directed team	`N/A`	not current
MEM30004A	Use CAD to create and display 3D models	`N/A`	not current
MEM30024A	Participate in quality assurance techniques	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT230A	Apply cost factors to work practices	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT430A	Improve cost factors in work practices	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV272B	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV472B	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	`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.

Every LMF training product on the register · Search all training products

Take this with you — one email with this page's clock as the register states it today. Nothing scheduled after it.

Also alert me when a cutoff in this scope changes. Ticking this keeps alert emails on for this address — they start once your RTO is on the free watch (one minute from the panel link in the email), and every alert has a one-click stop.

No account, no card. Your address gets this one email — no list, no marketing. Cutoff alerts only ever come from a watch you start yourself — the box just records your yes now — and every alert has a one-click stop.

Is LMF40508 still on your scope? Type your RTO code and get the free breakdown — every superseded product on your live scope, and whether the register flags each replacement equivalent.

Also watch that scope — email me when something on it is approaching the date new enrolments stop, or when the register changes what you have to do. Free forever, one click to stop.

No account, no card. We never ask for anything about your learners. Your address gets this one report — no list, no marketing — and the scope watch only if you tick the box, with one click to stop it.