GLD SPDR Gold Trust

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 6, 2022

Registration No. 333-263087

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

c/o World Gold Trust Services, LLC

685 Third Avenue, 27^th Floor

New York, New York 10017

(212) 317-3800

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

World Gold Trust Services, LLC

685 Third Avenue, 27^th Floor

New York, New York 10017

(212) 317-3800

Attention: Ann B. Pace, Head of Legal USA

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Steven J. Glusband, Esq.

Mary Winchurch Brown, Esq.

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

28 Liberty Street, 41^st Floor

New York, New York 10005

(212) 732-3200

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment filed by the SPDR^® Gold Trust, a New York Trust (the “Registrant”), removes from registration all shares of beneficial interest in the Registrant (the “Securities”) registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (Registration No. 333-263087) (the “Registration Statement”) pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate number of such Securities, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and became automatically effective on February 28, 2022. The Registrant has filed a new registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-267520) in order to pay securities registration fees pursuant to Rule 456(d) under the Securities Act of 1933. No securities registered under the Registration Statement were sold.

In accordance with the undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all of the Securities registered but not sold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, New York, on October 6, 2022.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed on October 6, 2022 by the following persons in the capacities* indicated.

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