Can an RTO still enrol new students in SHB50115?

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 16 December 2022. 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 SHB50115?

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).

SHB50115 Diploma of 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.

SHB50115Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Beauty Therapy
not equivalent
SHB50121CurrentDiploma of 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.

SIB50110SHB50115equivalent24 September 2015
Number of units required to complete this qualification has reduced from 33 units to 25.The number of core units has reduced from 22 to 13 and elective units increased to 12. This change better reflects the skill requirements of the job profile.
SHB50115SHB50121not equivalent15 December 2021
Non-equivalent. Packaging Rules, core units and elective units have been updated.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for SHB50115 and for its training package SHB (release 5.0), 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.

SHB50115_R1.pdfSHB50115 release 1 · product document · published 25 September 2015
SHB50115_R1.docxSHB50115 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
SHB release 5.0 Companion Volume Implementation Guide v0.9Companion Volume · SHB release 5.0 · PDF · 27 February 2026

Is SHB50115 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SHB50115 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 SHB50115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 36 units for SHB50115: 13 core and 23 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
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
SHBBFAS003	Provide specialised facial treatments	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 23 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBSMB304	Determine resource requirements for the micro business	not current
BSBSMB403	Market the small business	not current
BSBSMB404	Undertake small business planning	not current
BSBSMB405	Monitor and manage small business operations	not current
BSBSMB406	Manage small business finances	not current
SHBBBOS004	Provide aromatherapy massages	not current
SHBBBOS005	Use reflexology relaxation techniques in beauty treatments	not current
SHBBBOS006	Provide superficial lymph massage treatments	not current
SHBBCCS002	Prepare personalised aromatic plant oil blends for beauty treatments	not current
SHBBHRS002	Provide female intimate waxing services	not current
SHBBHRS003	Provide male intimate waxing services	not current
SHBBHRS004	Provide hair reduction treatments using electrical currents	not current
SHBBINF001	Maintain infection control standards	not current
SHBBMUP003	Design and apply make-up for photography	not current
SHBBMUP004	Design and apply remedial camouflage make-up	not current
SHBBSKS002	Provide diathermy treatments	not current
SHBBSKS003	Design and provide cosmetic tattooing	not current
SHBBSKS004	Provide upper body piercings	not current
SHBBSKS005	Provide micro-dermabrasion treatments	not current
SHBBSPA001	Work in a spa therapies framework	not current
SHBBSPA002	Provide spa therapies	not current
SHBBSPA003	Provide stone therapy massages	not current
SHBBSPA004	Provide Indian head massages for relaxation	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 13 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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