SIRRMER516 Style merchandise for photography

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for SIRRMER516 ended on 14 August 2017 — 9 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 August 2018 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
SIR07 — Retail Services Training Package
Currency period ends
14 August 2017
Latest release
Release 1 · 13 June 2012
Supersedes
SIRRMER016A
Superseded by
SIRRMER008 not equivalent

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.

  1. SIRRMER516Superseded — not equivalentStyle merchandise for photography
  2. not equivalent
  3. SIRRMER008CurrentPlan and style merchandise photo shoots

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.

  • SIRRMER016ASIRRMER516equivalent12 June 2012

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

  • SIRRMER516SIRRMER008not equivalent15 August 2017

    • Not equivalent • Unit updated to meet Standards for Training Packages • Updated title • Significant change to the expression of elements and performance criteria to streamline language and better define essential outcomes and performance • Updated knowledge requirements to reflect unit revisions.

Is SIRRMER516 on your scope?

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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.

Where SIRRMER516 is used

training.gov.au lists SIRRMER516 inside 3 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for SIRRMER516 in that product.

Products no longer current 3 listed

The register still records SIRRMER516 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeSIRRMER516 is
CUA41115Certificate IV in Photography and Photo ImagingQualificationelective
CUA50915Diploma of Photography and Photo ImagingQualificationelective
SIR50212Diploma of Visual MerchandisingQualificationelective

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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