Can an RTO still enrol new students in SIF40108?

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 21 June 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 SIF40108?

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).

SIF40108 Certificate IV in Funeral 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.

SIF40108Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Funeral Services
equivalent
SIF40113Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Funeral Services
equivalent
SIF40125CurrentCertificate IV in Funeral Services

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.

WFS40102SIF40108equivalent18 February 2009
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
SIF40108SIF40113equivalent20 June 2013
Revised qualification provides greater flexibility to meet industry/organisational outcomes. Changes to packaging rules include the removal of specialisations and greater choice of imported units from other training packages and accredited courses. The total number of units required to complete this qualification remains at 14. The number of core units has decreased from 7 to 5. The number of elective units has increased from 6 to 9.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for SIF40108 and for its training package SIF08 (release 1.1), 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.

SIF40108_R1.pdfSIF40108 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
SIF40108_R1.docxSIF40108 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is SIF40108 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SIF40108 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 SIF40108 is made of

training.gov.au lists 58 units for SIF40108. 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 58 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCUS501A	Manage quality customer service	`N/A`	not current
BSBITS401A	Maintain business technology	`N/A`	not current
BSBITU402A	Develop and use complex spreadsheets	`N/A`	not current
BSBLED401A	Develop teams and individuals	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT403A	Implement continuous improvement	`N/A`	not current
BSBRKG402B	Provide information from and about records	`N/A`	not current
BSBRKG403B	Set up a business or records system for a small business	`N/A`	not current
BSBSBM301A	Research business opportunities	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB402A	Plan small business finances	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB404A	Undertake small business planning	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB405A	Monitor and manage small business operations	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB406A	Manage small business finances	`N/A`	not current
FNSACCT503B	Manage budgets and forecasts	`N/A`	not current
FNSICORG516B	Prepare financial reports to meet statutory requirements	`N/A`	not current
RTC3805A	Coordinate work site activities	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR005B	Install burial vaults	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR006A	Coordinate chapel operations	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR007A	Prepare vaults or crypts for burials	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR008A	Schedule burials or cremations	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR009A	Reinstate vaults or crypts	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR010A	Supervise burials	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR012A	Arrange and oversee viewings of cremations	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR014A	Supervise cremations	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR016A	Supervise exhumations	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR019A	Coordinate burial works	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR022A	Coordinate monument installation	`N/A`	not current
SIFBGM006A	Evaluate building and grounds maintenance and development needs	`N/A`	not current
SIFBGM007A	Coordinate building and grounds maintenance and development	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS003A	Liaise with community	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL003A	Arrange funerals	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 28 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
SIFFNL004A	Arrange and oversee viewings	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL005A	Arrange intrastate and interstate repatriations	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL006A	Arrange international repatriations	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL007A	Conduct a funeral	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL008B	Coordinate funeral operations	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL009A	Plan and conduct a funeral ceremony	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC002A	Control and order goods	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC003A	Conduct internal quality audits	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC004A	Monitor contracted services and supplies	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND001B	Work effectively in the funeral services industry	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND002A	Deal with grief and trauma	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND003A	Participate in industry networks	`N/A`	not current
SIFMGT001A	Coordinate a team	`N/A`	not current
SIFMGT003A	Supervise staff	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR002A	Prepare and conduct tours	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR003A	Liaise with the media	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR004A	Develop marketing strategies and activities	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS003A	Follow mortuary OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS004A	Work in confined spaces	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS007A	Identify hazards and assess risks in a cemetery or crematorium	`N/A`	not current
SIFSLS001A	Sell funeral and burial products and services	`N/A`	not current
SIFSLS003A	Lead a sales team	`N/A`	not current
SIRXHRM001A	Administer human resources policy	`N/A`	not current
SIRXHRM002A	Recruit and select personnel	`N/A`	not current
SIRXOHS003A	Provide a safe working environment	`N/A`	not current
TAADEL301C	Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills	`N/A`	not current
TLIR207C	Source goods/services and evaluate contractors	`N/A`	not current
TLIR307C	Negotiate a contract	`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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