Can an RTO still enrol new students in SIR50207?

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 13 June 2013. 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 SIR50207?

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).

SIR50207 Diploma of Visual Merchandising

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.

SIR50207Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Visual Merchandising
equivalent
SIR50212Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Visual Merchandising
not equivalent
SIR50217CurrentDiploma of Visual Merchandising

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.

SIR50207SIR50212equivalent12 June 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for SIR50207 and for its training package SIR07 (release 3.4), 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.

SIR50207_R1.pdfSIR50207 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
SIR50207_R1.docxSIR50207 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is SIR50207 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SIR50207 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 SIR50207 is made of

training.gov.au lists 41 units for SIR50207. 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 41 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBADV512A	Develop an advertising strategy and brief	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB404A	Undertake small business planning	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR501A	Manage personal work priorities and professional development	`N/A`	not current
CUFMEM06A	Design a multimedia product	`N/A`	not current
CUFMEM14A	Create, manipulate and incorporate 2D graphics	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS03A	Produce computer-aided drawings	`N/A`	not current
CUVDES01A	Apply colour theory in response to a brief	`N/A`	not current
CUVDES02A	Apply the design process to 2-dimensional work in response to a brief	`N/A`	not current
CUVDES03A	Apply the design process to 3-dimensional work in response to a brief	`N/A`	not current
CUVDSP04A	Research and apply the history and theory of design to design practice	`N/A`	not current
CUVPHI05A	Use a 35mm SLR camera or digital equivalent	`N/A`	not current
CUVVSP11A	Apply techniques to produce digital images	`N/A`	not current
SIRRIND001A	Work effectively as a visual merchandiser	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER005A	Produce retail visual illustrations	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER006A	Manufacture visual merchandising support structures	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER007A	Apply lettering	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER008A	Produce working drawings	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER009A	Produce perspective drawing, plans and elevations	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER010A	Design, construct and maintain props and merchandisers	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER011A	Develop concept visuals	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER012A	Maintain display lighting and brief lighting designers	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER013A	Design and produce store plans and floor layouts	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER014A	Manage visual merchandising projects	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER015A	Design merchandisers	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER016A	Style merchandise for photography	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER017A	Design and produce merchandising and in-store presentations	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER018A	Develop and apply strategies for merchandising and corporate presentation	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER019A	Present design concepts	`N/A`	not current
SIRRMER020A	Create and implement exhibition space	`N/A`	not current
SIRXCOM001A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 11 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
SIRXHRM001A	Administer human resources policy	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMER003A	Monitor in-store visual merchandising display	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMER004A	Manage merchandise and store presentation	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMER006A	Present products	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMER007A	Demonstrate merchandising and category presentation skills	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMGT003A	Lead and manage people	`N/A`	not current
SIRXMPR001A	Profile a retail market	`N/A`	not current
SIRXOHS001A	Apply safe working practices	`N/A`	not current
SIRXOHS002A	Maintain store safety	`N/A`	not current
SIRXOHS003A	Provide a safe working environment	`N/A`	not current
SIRXQUA002A	Lead a team to foster innovation	`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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