When must new enrolments into SHB40115 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 December 2022 — 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in SHB40115?

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).

SHB40115 Certificate IV in Beauty Therapy

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.

SHB40115Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Beauty Therapy
not equivalent
SHB40121CurrentCertificate IV in Beauty Therapy

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.

SIB40110SHB40115equivalent24 September 2015
Number of units required to complete this qualification has reduced from 25 units to 19. The number of core units has reduced from 17 to 13 and elective units from 8 to 6. This change better reflects the skill requirements of the job profile.
SHB40115SHB40121not equivalent15 December 2021
Non-equivalent. Packaging Rules, core units and elective units have been changed.

Is SHB40115 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SHB40115 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 SHB40115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for SHB40115: 13 core and 10 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 13 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
SHBBBOS001	Apply cosmetic tanning products	not current
SHBBBOS002	Provide body massages	not current
SHBBBOS003	Provide body treatments	not current
SHBBFAS001	Provide lash and brow services	not current
SHBBFAS002	Provide facial treatments and skin care recommendations	not current
SHBBHRS001	Provide waxing services	not current
SHBBMUP002	Design and apply make-up	not current
SHBBNLS001	Provide manicure and pedicare services	not current
SHBBRES001	Research and apply beauty industry information	not current
SHBXCCS001	Conduct salon financial transactions	not current
SHBXCCS002	Provide salon services to clients	not current
SHBXIND001	Comply with organisational requirements within a personal services environment	not current
SHBXWHS001	Apply safe hygiene, health and work practices	not current

Elective units 10 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
SHBBBOS004	Provide aromatherapy massages	not current
SHBBFAS003	Provide specialised facial treatments	not current
SHBBMUP001	Apply eyelash extensions	not current
SHBBMUP003	Design and apply make-up for photography	not current
SHBBMUP004	Design and apply remedial camouflage make-up	not current
SHBBNLS002	Apply gel nail enhancements	not current
SHBBNLS003	Apply acrylic nail enhancements	not current
SHBBNLS004	Apply nail art	not current
SHBBNLS005	Use electric file equipment for nail services	not current
SHBBNLS006	Apply advanced nail art	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 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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