As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 9, 2013

 

Registration No. 333-152386

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT No. 4

TO

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

UNITED STATES SHORT OIL FUND, LP

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

         
Delaware   6770   26-2939256
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization) 		  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number) 		  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

     
United States Commodity Funds LLC
1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1530
Oakland, California 94612
510.522.9600 		  Nicholas D. Gerber
1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1530
Oakland, California 94612
510.522.9600
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices) 		  (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

W. Thomas Conner, Esq.

Reed Smith LLP

1301 K Street,

N.W. Washington, DC 20005-3317

202.414.9208

 

 
 

 

Pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, all registered but unsold Units of United States Short Oil Fund, LP registered under SEC File Nos. 333-152386 are hereby deregistered under the Securities Act of 1933 effective as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Oakland, State of California, on January 9, 2013.

 

UNITED STATES SHORT OIL FUND, LP

 
     
BY:   United States Commodity Funds LLC, as general partner
     
By:   /s/ Nicholas D. Gerber
    Nicholas D. Gerber
    Chief Executive Officer of United States Commodity Funds LLC

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. The document may be executed by signatories hereto on any number of counterparts, all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

Signature       Position       Date
         

/s/ Nicholas D. Gerber 

Nicholas D. Gerber 

      Management Director and
Chief Executive Officer 		      January 9, 2013
         

/s/ Howard Mah 

Howard Mah 

      Management Director and
Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer 		      January 9, 2013
         
* Andrew Ngim       Management Director       January 9, 2013
         
* Peter M. Robinson       Independent Director       January 9, 2013
         
* Malcolm R. Fobes III       Independent Director       January 9, 2013
         
* Gordon L. Ellis       Independent Director       January 9, 2013

 

* Signed by Howard Mah pursuant to a power of attorney signed by each of the directors and filed as part of the registration statement on Form S-1 filed on July 17, 2008.

 

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