MSF20516 Certificate II in Furniture Making Pathways

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSF20516 ended on 6 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 8 December 2023 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
MSF — Furnishing Training Package
Currency period ends
6 December 2022
Latest release
Release 2 · 3 December 2018 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
MSF20522 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. MSF20516Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Furniture Making Pathways
  2. equivalent
  3. MSF20522CurrentCertificate II in Furniture Making Pathways

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.

  • MSF20516MSF20522equivalent7 December 2022

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is MSF20516 on your scope?

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What MSF20516 is made of

training.gov.au lists 20 units for MSF20516: 5 core and 15 elective. 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.

Core units 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSFFP2001Undertake a basic furniture making projectnot current
MSFFP2002Develop a career plan for the furnishing industrynot current
MSFGN2001Make measurements and calculationsnot current
MSMENV272Participate in environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent
MSMPCI103Demonstrate care and apply safe practices at workcurrent

Elective units 15 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MEM16006AOrganise and communicate informationnot current
MEM16008AInteract with computing technologynot current
MSFFM2001Use furniture making sector hand and power toolsnot current
MSFFM2002Assemble furnishing componentsnot current
MSFFM2003Select and apply hardwarenot current
MSFFP2003Prepare surfacesnot current
MSFFP2004Apply domestic surface coatingsnot current
MSFFP2005Join furnishing materialsnot current
MSFFP2006Make simple timber jointsnot current
MSFFP2007Identify materials used in furnishing productionnot current
MSFFP2008Make a simple upholstery productnot current
MSFFP2009Identify materials suitable for kitchen or bathroom constructionnot current
MSFFP2010Research and draw a basic kitchen or bathroom designnot current
MSMPCI101Adapt to work in industrycurrent
MSMSUP106Work in a teamcurrent

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 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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