As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2016

Registration No. 333-158069

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 3
to
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

General Electric Company

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

14-0689340
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, Connecticut 06828
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Certain Existing and Future GE or Affiliate Benefit and Compensation Plans

(Full Title of the Plan)

(203) 373-2211
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Large accelerated filer	ý			Accelerated filer	¨
Non-accelerated filer	¨		(Do not check if smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company	¨

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INTRODUCTION

General Electric Company, a New York corporation (the “Company” or the “Registrant” or “we”), registered on a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File no. 333-158069) filed on March 17, 2009 (the “Original Registration Statement”), as amended by Post-Effective No. 1 filed on November 8, 2011 (“Amendment No. 1”) and Post-Effective No. 2 filed on June 13, 2012 (“Amendment No. 2”), 10,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.06 per share (the “Common Stock”), to be offered and sold under certain existing and future benefit and compensation plans of the Company and its affiliates that co-filed the Original Registration Statement or that are added to the Original Registration Statement through post-effective amendments thereto (the “Plans”), and an indeterminate amount of interests in each of the Plans. The Plans currently consist of the Advanced Services, Inc. Employee Savings and Retirement Plan (the “Advanced Services Plan”), the ITI 401(k) Plan, the Computer Dynamics, Inc. 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan (formerly, Total Control Products, Inc. 401(k) Plan), the Elano Profit Sharing Plan, the Middle River Aircraft Systems Hourly Savings Plan, the Middle River Aircraft Systems Salaried Savings Plan and the Roper Employee Voluntary Stock Ownership Plan (the “Roper Plan”).

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Original Registration Statement (this “Amendment No. 3” and, together with the Original Registration Statement, Amendment No. 1 and Amendment No. 2, the “Registration Statement”) is being filed for the purposes of (1) reallocating 25,000 of the 80,000 shares of Common Stock previously allocated to the Advanced Services Plan to be designated as Unallocated shares, (2) reallocating 500,000 of the 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock previously allocated to the Roper Plan to be designated as Unallocated shares, and (3) deregistering the interests in the Advanced Services Plan and Roper Plan, in each case in connection with the sale of the Company’s Appliances business, effective June 6, 2016, resulting in no securities offering that requires registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. As amended hereby, the following amounts of shares of Common Stock have been registered under the Registration Statement with respect to the Plans:

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SIGNATURES

The Company. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, General Electric Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on this 1^st day of August, 2016.

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
By:	/s/ Christoph A. Pereira
	Christoph A. Pereira
	Vice President and Chief Corporate, Securities & Finance Counsel

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

Name		Title		Date
*Jeffrey R. Immelt		Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer		August 1, 2016
		(Principal Executive Officer)
*Jeffrey S. Bornstein		Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer		August 1, 2016
		(Principal Financial Officer)
*Jan R. Hauser		Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer		August 1, 2016
		(Principal Accounting Officer)
*Sébastien M. Bazin		Director		August 1, 2016
*W. Geoffrey Beattie		Director		August 1, 2016
*John J. Brennan		Director		August 1, 2016
*Francisco D’Souza		Director		August 1, 2016
*Marijn E. Dekkers		Director		August 1, 2016
*Peter B. Henry		Director		August 1, 2016
*Susan J. Hockfield		Director		August 1, 2016
*Andrea Jung		Director		August 1, 2016
*Robert W. Lane		Director		August 1, 2016
*Rochelle B. Lazarus		Director		August 1, 2016
*Lowell C. McAdam		Director		August 1, 2016
*James J. Mulva		Director		August 1, 2016
*James E. Rohr		Director		August 1, 2016
*Mary L. Schapiro		Director		August 1, 2016
*James S. Tisch		Director		August 1, 2016

A Majority of the Board of Directors.
*By:	/s/ Christoph A. Pereira
	Christoph A. Pereira
	Attorney-in-Fact

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Advanced Services, Inc. Employee Savings and Retirement Plan*
ITI 401(k) Plan*
Computer Dynamics, Inc. 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan
(formerly, Total Control Products, Inc. 401(k) Plan)*
Elano Profit Sharing Plan*
Middle River Aircraft Systems Hourly Savings Plan*
Middle River Aircraft Systems Salaried Savings Plan*
Roper Employee Voluntary Stock Ownership Plan*

*By:	/s/ Christoph A. Pereira
	Christoph A. Pereira
	Attorney-in-Fact

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
No.		Description
24.1		Power of Attorney of certain Officers and Directors of the Company

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