Can an RTO still enrol new students in RUV40304?

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 11 November 2011. 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 RUV40304?

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).

RUV40304 Certificate IV in Companion Animal Services

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.

RUV40304Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Companion Animal Services
not equivalent
ACM40310Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Companion Animal Services
equivalent
ACM40317Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Companion Animal Services
not equivalent
ACM40321Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Animal Behaviour and Training
not equivalent
ACM40322CurrentCertificate IV in Animal Behaviour and Training

training.gov.au publishes 2 replacements for ACM40317. This rail follows ACM40321; the other: ACM40221.

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.

RUV40304ACM40310not equivalent10 November 2010
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is RUV40304 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RUV40304 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 RUV40304 is made of

training.gov.au lists 25 units for RUV40304. 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 25 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBFLM404A	Lead work teams	`N/A`	not current
BSBSBM403A	Promote the business	`N/A`	not current
BSBSBM405A	Monitor and manage business operations	`N/A`	not current
BSBSBM407A	Manage a small team	`N/A`	not current
BSZ404A	Train small groups	`N/A`	not current
RUV3101A	Carry out workplace OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
RUV3503A	Work effectively in the companion animal industry	`N/A`	not current
RUV3504A	Monitor and maintain health of companion animals	`N/A`	not current
RUV4101A	Implement and monitor the organisation's OHS program	`N/A`	not current
RUV4203A	Identify and respond to animal behaviour	`N/A`	not current
RUV4501A	Manage compliance in the companion animal industry	`N/A`	not current
RUV4502A	Hand-rear companion animals	`N/A`	not current
RUV4503A	Develop diets for companion animals	`N/A`	not current
RUV4504A	Manage and maintain aviaries and bird rooms	`N/A`	not current
RUV4505A	Design, construct and maintain aquascapes	`N/A`	not current
RUV4506A	Develop enrichment strategies for companion animals	`N/A`	not current
RUV4507A	Purchase companion animal livestock	`N/A`	not current
RUV4508A	Manage companion animal breeding	`N/A`	not current
RUV4509A	Provide professional companion animal grooming services	`N/A`	not current
RUV4510A	Provide companion animal hydro-bathing services	`N/A`	not current
RUV4511A	Provide training advice to companion animal owners	`N/A`	not current
RUV4512A	Conduct companion animal training classes	`N/A`	not current
RUV4611A	Prepare, deliver and review animal care education programs	`N/A`	not current
WRRO1B	Manage merchandise and store presentation	`N/A`	not current
WRRO5B	Control inventory	`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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