# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001516212
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-190818
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 5244
**Document Hash:** eade3842dda049cb62d06a4fbe06e751
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-190818.hdr.sgml**: 20250828

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-190818

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-A12B

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250828

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250828

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** SSGA Active Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001516212

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-A12B
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-35524
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251269311

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE IRON STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02210
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6176643920

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE IRON STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02210

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** SSgA Active Trust
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20141208

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** SSgA Active ETF Trust
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20110322

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM 8-A** 

**FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES** 

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF** 

**THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

## SSGA Active Trust
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Massachusetts** | **See Below** |
| **(State of incorporation or organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer Identification number)** |

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| **One Iron Street, Boston, Massachusetts** | **02210** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:** 

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| **Title of Each Class**<br> **to be Registered** | **Name of the Exchange on Which<br>Each Class is to be so Registered** | **I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification**<br> **Number** |
| **State Street Short Duration IG Public & Private Credit ETF** | **NYSE Arca, Inc.** | **39-2404569** |

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If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), check the following box: ☒

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), check the following box: ☐

**Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates: 333-173276** 

**Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None** 

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Item 1. Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered

[A description of the Shares is set forth in the registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A ("Registration Statement") (Commission File Nos. 333-173276; 811-22542), which description is incorporated herein by reference as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 28, 2025.](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1516212/000119312525189929/d10752d485bpos.htm) Any form of supplement to the Registration Statement that is subsequently filed that relates to the Shares is hereby also incorporated by reference herein.

Item 2. Exhibits

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| (a)(i) | [Declaration of Trust of SSGA Active Trust (the "Trust" or the "Registrant"), dated March 30, 2011 (the "Declaration of Trust"), is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (a) to the Registrant's initial Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 1, 2011.](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1516212/000095012311032152/b85790a1exv99w28xay.htm) |
| (a)(ii) | [Amendment No. 1, dated December 5, 2014, to the Declaration of Trust is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (a)(ii) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 50 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the SEC on August 27, 2015.](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1516212/000119312515305041/d67424dex99aii.htm) |
| (a)(iii) | [Amendment No. 2, dated February 20, 2025, to the Declaration of Trust is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (a)(iii) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 231 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the SEC on February 26, 2025.](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1516212/000119312525035495/d865902dex99aiii.htm) |
| (b) | [Registrant's Amended and Restated By-Laws, dated February 20, 2025, are incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (b) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 231 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the SEC on February 26, 2025.](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1516212/000119312525035495/d865902dex99b.htm) |

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed in the City of Boston and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 28<sup>th</sup> day of August, 2025.

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| By: | /s/ Edmund Gerard Maiorana, Jr. |
|  | Edmund Gerard Maiorana, Jr. |
|  | Attorney-in-Fact |

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