As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 29, 2026

Securities Act File No. 333-295277

Investment Company Act File No. 811-22991

 

 

 

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-2

Registration Statement

underneath

   the Securities Act of 1933  
   Pre‑Effective Amendment No.  
   Post-Effective Amendment No. 1  
   and/or
   Registration Statement
  

Under

the Investment Company Act of 1940

 
   Amendment No. 13  

 

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified In Declaration of Trust)

 

100 Bellevue Parkway

Wilmington, Delaware 19809

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, together with Area Code: (800) 882‑0052

John M. Perlowski, President

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust

50 Hudson Yards

New York, New York 10001

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

 

Copies of knowledge to:

Margery Ok. Neale, Esq.

Elliot J. Gluck, Esq.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, New York 10019

 

Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Public Offering: From time to time after the efficient date of this Registration Statement.

If the one securities being registered on this Form are being supplied pursuant to dividend or curiosity reinvestment plans, examine the next field 

If any securities being registered on this Form will probably be supplied on a delayed or steady foundation in reliance on Rule 415 underneath the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”), aside from securities supplied in reference to a dividend reinvestment plan, examine the next field. 

If this Form is a registration assertion pursuant to General Instruction A.2 or a post-effective modification thereto, examine the next field 

If this Form is a registration assertion pursuant to General Instruction B or a post-effective modification thereto that can grow to be efficient upon submitting with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) underneath the Securities Act, examine the next field 

If this Form is a post-effective modification to a registration assertion filed pursuant to General Instruction B to register further securities or further courses of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) underneath the Securities Act, examine the next field 

It is proposed that this submitting will grow to be efficient (examine acceptable field):

 

when declared efficient pursuant to Section 8(c) of the Securities Act.

If acceptable, examine the next field:

 

This [post-effective] modification designates a brand new efficient date for a beforehand filed [post-effective amendment] [registration statement].

 

This Form is filed to register further securities for an providing pursuant to Rule 462(b) underneath the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration assertion variety of the sooner efficient registration assertion for a similar providing is:    .

 

This Form is a post-effective modification filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) underneath the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration assertion variety of the sooner efficient registration assertion for a similar providing is:    .

 

This Form is a post-effective modification filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) underneath the Securities Act, and the Securities Act registration assertion variety of the sooner efficient registration assertion for a similar providing is: 333‑295277.

Check every field that appropriately characterizes the Registrant:

 

Registered Closed‑End Fund (closed‑finish firm that’s registered underneath the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”)).

 

Business Development Company (closed‑finish firm that intends or has elected to be regulated as a enterprise improvement firm underneath the Investment Company Act).

 

Interval Fund (Registered Closed‑End Fund or a Business Development Company that makes periodic repurchase gives underneath Rule 23c‑3 underneath the Investment Company Act).

 

A.2 Qualified (certified to register securities pursuant to General Instruction A.2 of this Form).

 

Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (as outlined by Rule 405 underneath the Securities Act).

 

Emerging Growth Company (as outlined by Rule 12b‑2 underneath the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).

 

If an Emerging Growth Company, point out by examine mark if the registrant has elected to not use the prolonged transition interval for complying with any new or revised monetary accounting requirements offered pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.

 

New Registrant (registered or regulated underneath the Investment Company Act for lower than 12 calendar months previous this submitting).

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N‑2 (File Nos. 333‑295277 and 811‑22991) of BlackRock Science and Technology Trust (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) underneath the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the aim of submitting exhibits to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 consists solely of a going through web page, this explanatory notice and Part C of the Registration Statement on Form N‑2 setting forth the exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 doesn’t modify another a part of the Registration Statement. Pursuant to Rule 462(d) underneath the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 shall grow to be efficient instantly upon submitting with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The contents of the Registration Statement are hereby integrated by reference.


PART C

Other Information

Item 25. Financial Statements And Exhibits

The agreements included or integrated by reference as exhibits to this Registration Statement include representations and warranties by every of the events to the relevant settlement. These representations and warranties had been made solely for the advantage of the opposite events to the relevant settlement and (i) weren’t meant to be handled as categorical statements of truth, however somewhat as a approach of allocating the chance to one of many events if these statements show to be inaccurate; (ii) might have been certified in such settlement by disclosures that had been made to the opposite occasion in reference to the negotiation of the relevant settlement; (iii) might apply contract requirements of “materiality” which are completely different from “materiality” underneath the relevant securities legal guidelines; and (iv) had been made solely as of the date of the relevant settlement or such different date or dates as could also be specified within the settlement.

The Registrant acknowledges that, however the inclusion of the foregoing cautionary statements, it’s accountable for contemplating whether or not further particular disclosures of fabric info concerning materials contractual provisions are required to make the statements on this Registration Statement not deceptive.

 

(1)    Financial Statements
      Part A: The annual report back to the Trust’s shareholders for the fiscal 12 months ended December 31, 2025 (the “2025 Annual Report”) is integrated by reference.
      Part B: Audited monetary statements and monetary highlights for the fiscal 12 months ended December 31, 2025 and associated Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm are integrated herein by reference to the 2025 Annual Report.
(2)    Exhibits   
(a)       Agreement and Declaration of Trust is integrated by reference to Exhibit (a) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 15, 2014.
(b)    (1)    Amended and Restated Bylaws are integrated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Report on Form 8-Ok, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2016.
   (2)    Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Bylaws is integrated by reference to Exhibit (b)(2) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-233028), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2021.
(c)       Inapplicable
(d)    (1)    Article VI (Shares of Beneficial Interest) and Article X (Shareholders) of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust is integrated by reference to Exhibit (a) the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 15, 2014.
   (2)    Article I (Shareholder Meetings) of the Amended and Restated Bylaws is integrated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Report on Form 8-Ok, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2016.
(e)       Form of Automatic Dividend Reinvestment Plan is integrated by reference to Exhibit (e) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2014.
(f)       Inapplicable
(g)    (1)    Form of Investment Management Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(1) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2014.
   (2)    Form of Fee Waiver Letter is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(2) to Exhibit Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2014.

 

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   (3)    Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(3) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2020.
   (4)    Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(4) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2020.
   (5)    Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(5) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-233028), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2021.
   (6)    Amendment No. 3 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(6) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-233028), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2021.
   (7)    Amendment No. 4 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(7) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-233028), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2021.
   (8)    Form of Amendment No. 5 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(9) to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 of BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust, filed on January 12, 2022.
   (9)    Form of Amendment No. 6 to the Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(8) to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 of BlackRock 2037 Municipal Target Term Trust (File No. 333-250205) as filed with the Commission on July 28, 2022.
   (10)    Amendment No. 7 to Amended and Restated Master Advisory Fee Waiver Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (g)(9) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 of BlackRock Alpha Strategies Fund (File No. 333-273507) as filed with the Commission on July 26, 2024.
(h)    (1)    Distribution Agreement is filed herewith.
   (2)    Sub-Placement Agent Agreement is filed herewith.
(i)       Form of BlackRock Fixed-Income Complex Third Amended and Restated Deferred Compensation Plan is integrated by reference to Exhibit (i) to the Registration on Form N-2 of BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-262119), filed on January 12, 2022.
(j)       Form of Master Custodian Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (j) to the Registration on Form N-2 of BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-262119), filed on January 12, 2022.
(okay)    (1)    Form of Amended and Restated Transfer Agency and Service Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(1) to the Registration on Form N-2 of BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-262119), filed on January 12, 2022.
   (2)    Form of Administration and Accounting Services Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(2) to the Registration on Form N-2 of BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-262119), filed on January 12, 2022.
   (3)    Form of Name Licensing Agreement is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(3) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-198193), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2014.
   (4)    Form of Twelfth Amended and Restated Securities Lending Agency Agreement between the Registrant and BlackRock Investment Management, LLC is integrated herein by reference to Exhibit 8(p) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 1289 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of BlackRock FundsSM (File No. 33-26305), filed on January 26, 2026.
   (5)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant and every present and future sequence of Advisors Disciplined Trust is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(4) to BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-262272), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2022.
   (6)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant, Rydex Dynamic Funds, Rydex Series Funds, Rydex Variable Trust, Guggenheim Funds Trust, Guggenheim Variable Funds Trust, Guggenheim Strategy Funds Trust, Transparent Value Trust, Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund, Guggenheim Energy & Income Fund, Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund, Guggenheim Taxable Municipal Bond & Investment Grade Debt Trust and Guggenheim Unit Investment Trusts (Guggenheim Defined Portfolios) is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(5) to BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-262272), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2022.
   (7)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant, FT Series and First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII dated as of June 6, 2024 is integrated by reference to Exhibit (13)(g) to the Registration Statement on Form N-14 of BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (File No. 333-284088) filed on February 10, 2025.
   (8)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant, RiverNorth Funds, RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund, Inc., RiverNorth Specialty Finance Corporation, RiverNorth Opportunistic Municipal Income Fund, Inc., RiverNorth Managed Duration Municipal Income Fund, Inc., RiverNorth Managed Duration Municipal Income Fund II, Inc., RiverNorth Flexible Municipal Income Fund, Inc. and RiverNorth Flexible Municipal Income Fund II, Inc. is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(7) to BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-262272), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2022.
   (9)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant, Thrivent Mutual Funds and Thrivent Series Fund, Inc. is integrated by reference to Exhibit (okay)(7) to BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-262272), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2022.
   (10)    BlackRock Closed-End Rule 12d1-4 Fund of Funds Investment Agreement between the Registrant and GoodTrust dated as of May 21, 2024 is integrated by reference to Exhibit (13)(j) to the Registration Statement on Form N-14 of BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (File No. 333-284088) filed on February 10, 2025.

 

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(l)    (1)    Opinion and Consent of Counsel is integrated by reference to Exhibit (l) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-295277) filed on April 23, 2026.
   (2)    Opinion and Consent of Counsel to the Registrant is filed herewith.
(m)       Inapplicable.
(n)       Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Consent is integrated by reference to Exhibit (n) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-295277) filed on April 23, 2026.
(o)       Inapplicable.
(p)       Inapplicable.
(q)       Inapplicable.
(r)    (1)    Code of Ethics of Registrant, BlackRock Investments, LLC, BlackRock Advisors, LLC, BlackRock Fund Advisors, BlackRock International Limited, BlackRock (Singapore) Limited and BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited is integrated by reference to Exhibit (16)(a) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 1257 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of BlackRock FundsSM (File No. 33-26305), filed on May 23, 2025.
   (2)    Code of Ethics (Global Personal Investments Policy) for BlackRock, Inc. and its subsidiaries is integrated herein by reference to Exhibit 16(b) of Post-Effective Amendment No. 1289 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of BlackRock FundsSM (File No. 33-26305), filed on January 26, 2026.
(s)    (1)    Calculation of Filing Fee Tables is integrated by reference to Exhibit (s) to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-295277) filed on April 23, 2026.
   (2)    Calculation of Filing Fee Tables (Final Prospectus dated April 23, 2026, as revised May 29, 2026) is filed herewith.
(t)      

Power of Attorney is integrated herein by reference to Exhibit (t) to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. (File No. 333-291875), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 1, 2025.

Item 26. Marketing Arrangements

The info contained underneath the part entitled “Plan of Distribution” within the Prospectus is integrated by reference, and any info regarding any underwriters will probably be contained within the accompanying Prospectus Supplement, if any.

Item 27. Other Expenses Of Issuance And Distribution

The following desk units forth the estimated bills to be incurred in reference to the providing described on this Registration Statement:

 

SEC Registration charge

   $ 15,688  

NYSE itemizing charge

     2,500  

Accounting charges and bills

     4,600  

Legal charges and bills

     80,000  

FINRA charge

     74,282  

Total

   $ 177,070 (1) 

 

(1)

Estimate relies on the combination estimated bills to be incurred throughout a 3 12 months shelf providing interval.

Item 28. Persons Controlled By Or Under Common Control With The Registrant

None.

Item 29. Number Of Holders Of Shares

As of March 31, 2026:

 

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Title Of Class

   Number Of Record Holders  

Common Shares of Beneficial Interest

     4  

Item 30. Indemnification

Article V of the Registrant’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust gives as follows:

5.1 No Personal Liability of Shareholders, Trustees, and many others. No Shareholder of the Trust shall be topic in such capability to any private legal responsibility in any respect to any Person in reference to Trust Property or the acts, obligations or affairs of the Trust. Shareholders shall have the identical limitation of non-public legal responsibility as is prolonged to stockholders of a personal company for revenue integrated underneath the Delaware General Corporation Law. No Trustee or officer of the Trust shall be topic in such capability to any private legal responsibility in any respect to any Person, save solely legal responsibility to the Trust or its Shareholders arising from unhealthy religion, willful misfeasance, gross negligence or reckless disregard for his obligation to such Person; and, topic to the foregoing exception, all such Persons shall look solely to the Trust Property for satisfaction of claims of any nature arising in reference to the affairs of the Trust. If any Shareholder, Trustee or officer, as such, of the Trust, is made a celebration to any go well with or continuing to implement any such legal responsibility, topic to the foregoing exception, he shall not, on account thereof, be held to any private legal responsibility. Any repeal or modification of this Section 5.1 shall not adversely have an effect on any proper or safety of a Trustee or officer of the Trust present on the time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or omissions occurring previous to such repeal or modification.

5.2 Mandatory Indemnification. (a) The Trust hereby agrees to indemnify every one that at any time serves as a Trustee or officer of the Trust (every such particular person being an “indemnitee”) towards any liabilities and bills, together with quantities paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines and penalties, and affordable counsel charges moderately incurred by such indemnitee in reference to the protection or disposition of any motion, go well with or different continuing, whether or not civil or prison, earlier than any courtroom or administrative or investigative physique by which he could also be or might have been concerned as a celebration or in any other case or with which he could also be or might have been threatened, whereas appearing in any capability set forth on this Article V by motive of his having acted in any such capability, besides with respect to any matter as to which he shall not have acted in good religion within the affordable perception that his motion was in the perfect curiosity of the Trust or, within the case of any prison continuing, as to which he shall have had affordable trigger to imagine that the conduct was illegal, offered, nonetheless, that no indemnitee shall be indemnified hereunder towards any legal responsibility to any particular person or any expense of such indemnitee arising by motive of (i) willful misfeasance, (ii) unhealthy religion, (iii) gross negligence, or (iv) reckless disregard of the duties concerned within the conduct of his place (the conduct referred to in such clauses (i) by way of (iv) being generally referred to herein as “disabling conduct”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any motion, go well with or different continuing voluntarily prosecuted by any indemnitee as plaintiff, indemnification shall be necessary provided that the prosecution of such motion, go well with or different continuing by such indemnitee (1) was licensed by a majority of the Trustees or (2) was instituted by the indemnitee to implement his or her rights to indemnification hereunder in a case by which the indemnitee is discovered to be entitled to such indemnification. The rights to indemnification set forth on this Declaration shall proceed as to an individual who has ceased to be a Trustee or officer of the Trust and shall inure to the advantage of his or her heirs, executors and private and authorized representatives. No modification or restatement of this Declaration or repeal of any of its provisions shall restrict or get rid of any of the advantages offered to any one that at any time is or was a Trustee or officer of the Trust or in any other case entitled to indemnification hereunder in respect of any act or omission that occurred previous to such modification, restatement or repeal.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no indemnification shall be made hereunder except there was a willpower (i) by a last resolution on the deserves by a courtroom or different physique of competent jurisdiction earlier than whom the problem of entitlement to indemnification hereunder was introduced that such indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder or, (ii) within the absence of such a call, by (1) a majority vote of a quorum of these Trustees who’re neither ‘‘interested persons’’ of the Trust (as outlined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) nor events to the continuing (‘‘Disinterested Non-Party Trustees’’), that the indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder, or (2) if such quorum shouldn’t be obtainable or even when obtainable, if such majority so directs, unbiased authorized counsel in a written opinion concludes that the indemnitee ought to be entitled to indemnification hereunder. All determinations to make advance funds in reference to the expense of defending any continuing shall be licensed and made in accordance with the instantly succeeding paragraph (c) beneath.

 

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(c) The Trust shall make advance funds in reference to the bills of defending any motion with respect to which indemnification is perhaps sought hereunder if the Trust receives a written affirmation by the indemnitee of the indemnitee’s good religion perception that the requirements of conduct vital for indemnification have been met and a written enterprise to reimburse the Trust except it’s subsequently decided that the indemnitee is entitled to such indemnification and if a majority of the Trustees decide that the relevant requirements of conduct vital for indemnification seem to have been met. In addition, at the least one of many following situations should be met: (i) the indemnitee shall present ample safety for his enterprise, (ii) the Trust shall be insured towards losses arising by motive of any lawful advances, or (iii) a majority of a quorum of the Disinterested Non-Party Trustees, or if a majority vote of such quorum so direct, unbiased authorized counsel in a written opinion, shall conclude, primarily based on a overview of available details (versus a full trial-type inquiry), that there’s substantial motive to imagine that the indemnitee finally will probably be discovered entitled to indemnification.

(d) The rights accruing to any indemnitee underneath these provisions shall not exclude another proper which any particular person might have or hereafter purchase underneath this Declaration, the By-Laws of the Trust, any statute, settlement, vote of stockholders or Trustees who’re ‘‘disinterested persons’’ (as outlined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) or another proper to which she or he could also be lawfully entitled.

(e) Subject to any limitations offered by the 1940 Act and this Declaration, the Trust shall have the facility and authority to indemnify and supply for the advance fee of bills to staff, brokers and different Persons offering companies to the Trust or serving in any capability on the request of the Trust to the total extent firms organized underneath the Delaware General Corporation Law might indemnify or present for the advance fee of bills for such Persons, offered that such indemnification has been accepted by a majority of the Trustees.

5.3 No Bond Required of Trustees. No Trustee shall, as such, be obligated to offer any bond or different safety for the efficiency of any of his duties hereunder.

5.4 No Duty of Investigation; No Notice in Trust Instruments, and many others. No purchaser, lender, switch agent or different particular person coping with the Trustees or with any officer, worker or agent of the Trust shall be sure to make any inquiry in regards to the validity of any transaction purporting to be made by the Trustees or by mentioned officer, worker or agent or be responsible for the applying of cash or property paid, loaned, or delivered to or on the order of the Trustees or of mentioned officer, worker or agent. Every obligation, contract, enterprise, instrument, certificates, Share, different safety of the Trust, and each different act or factor in any respect executed in reference to the Trust shall be conclusively taken to have been executed or completed by the executors thereof solely of their capability as Trustees underneath this Declaration or of their capability as officers, staff or brokers of the Trust. The Trustees might keep insurance coverage for the safety of the Trust Property, the Shareholders, Trustees, officers, staff and brokers in such quantity because the Trustees shall deem ample to cowl doable tort legal responsibility, and such different insurance coverage because the Trustees of their sole judgment shall deem advisable or is required by the 1940 Act.

5.5 Reliance on Experts, and many others. Each Trustee and officer or worker of the Trust shall, within the efficiency of its duties, be totally and fully justified and guarded with regard to any act or any failure to behave ensuing from reliance in good religion upon the books of account or different information of the Trust, upon an opinion of counsel, or upon studies made to the Trust by any of the Trust’s officers or staff or by any advisor, administrator, supervisor, distributor, chosen seller, accountant, appraiser or different skilled or marketing consultant chosen with affordable care by the Trustees, officers or staff of the Trust, no matter whether or not such counsel or skilled may additionally be a Trustee.

Registrant has additionally entered into an settlement with Trustees and officers of the Registrant entitled to indemnification underneath the Agreement and Declaration of Trust pursuant to which the Registrant has agreed to advance bills and prices incurred by the indemnitee in reference to any matter in respect of which indemnification is perhaps sought pursuant to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust to the utmost extent permitted by regulation.

Reference can be made to:

Sections 10 and 11 of the Registrant’s Investment Management Agreement, a type of which is filed as Exhibit (g)(1) to this Registration Statement

 

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Additionally, the Registrant and the opposite funds within the BlackRock Fixed-Income Complex collectively keep, at their very own expense, E&O/D&O insurance coverage insurance policies for the advantage of its Trustees, officers and sure affiliated individuals. The Registrant pays a professional rata portion of the premium on such insurance coverage insurance policies.

Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Advisor

BlackRock Advisors, LLC, a restricted legal responsibility firm shaped underneath the legal guidelines of Delaware (the “Advisor”), acts as funding adviser to the Registrant. The Registrant is fulfilling the requirement of this Item 31 to supply an inventory of the officers and administrators of the Advisor, along with info as to another enterprise, career, vocation or employment of a considerable nature engaged in by the Advisor or these officers and administrators in the course of the previous two years, by incorporating by reference the data contained within the Form ADV of the Advisor filed with the fee pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Commission File No. 801-47710).

Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records

Omitted pursuant to the instruction to Item 32 of Form N-2.

Item 33. Management Services

Not Applicable

Item 34. Undertakings

(1) Not relevant.

(2) Not relevant.

(3) The securities being registered will probably be supplied on a delayed or steady foundation in reliance on Rule 415 underneath the Securities Act of 1933. Accordingly, the Registrant undertakes:

 

  (a)

to file, throughout any interval by which gives or gross sales are being made, a post-effective modification to this Registration Statement:

(1) to incorporate any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(2) to replicate within the prospectus any details or occasions after the efficient date of the Registration Statement (or the latest post-effective modification thereof) which, individually or within the combination, signify a basic change within the info set forth within the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any enhance or lower in quantity of securities supplied (if the whole greenback worth of securities supplied wouldn’t exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or excessive finish of the estimated most providing vary could also be mirrored within the type of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, within the combination, the modifications in quantity and value signify not more than 20% change within the most combination providing value set forth within the “Calculation of Registration Fee” desk within the efficient registration assertion.

(3) to incorporate any materials info with respect to the plan of distribution not beforehand disclosed within the Registration Statement or any materials change to such info within the Registration Statement.

 

  (b)

that for the aim of figuring out any legal responsibility underneath the Securities Act of 1933, every post-effective modification shall be deemed to be a brand new registration assertion referring to the securities supplied therein, and the providing of such securities at the moment shall be deemed to be the preliminary bona fide providing thereof;

 

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  (c)

to take away from registration by the use of a post-effective modification any of the securities being registered which stay unsold on the termination of the providing; and

 

  (d)

that, for the aim of figuring out legal responsibility underneath the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(1) if the Registrant is counting on Rule 430B [17 CFR 230.430B]:

(A) Each prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be a part of the registration assertion as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed a part of and included within the registration assertion; and

(B) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as a part of a registration assertion in reliance on Rule 430B referring to an providing made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (x), or (xi) for the aim of offering the data required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be a part of and included within the registration assertion as of the sooner of the date such type of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the primary contract of sale of securities within the providing described within the prospectus. As offered in Rule 430B, for legal responsibility functions of the issuer and any particular person that’s at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a brand new efficient date of the registration assertion referring to the securities within the registration assertion to which that prospectus relates, and the providing of such securities at the moment shall be deemed to be the preliminary bona fide providing thereof. Provided, nonetheless, that no assertion made in a registration assertion or prospectus that’s a part of the registration assertion or made in a doc integrated or deemed integrated by reference into the registration assertion or prospectus that’s a part of the registration assertion will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale previous to such efficient date, supersede or modify any assertion that was made within the registration assertion or prospectus that was a part of the registration assertion or made in any such doc instantly previous to such efficient date; or

(2) if the Registrant is topic to Rule 430C [17 CFR 230.430C]: Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) underneath the Securities Act of 1933 as a part of a registration assertion referring to an providing, aside from registration statements counting on Rule 430B or aside from prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be a part of and included within the registration assertion as of the date it’s first used after effectiveness. Provided, nonetheless, that no assertion made in a registration assertion or prospectus that’s a part of the registration assertion or made in a doc integrated or deemed integrated by reference into the registration assertion or prospectus that’s a part of the registration assertion will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale previous to such first use, supersede or modify any assertion that was made within the registration assertion or prospectus that was a part of the registration assertion or made in any such doc instantly previous to such date of first use.

 

  (e)

that for the aim of figuring out legal responsibility of the Registrant underneath the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser within the preliminary distribution of securities: The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a main providing of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement, whatever the underwriting technique used to promote the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are supplied or bought to such purchaser by the use of any of the next communications, the undersigned Registrant will probably be a vendor to the purchaser and will probably be thought of to supply or promote such securities to the purchaser: (1) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant referring to the providing required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 underneath the Securities Act of 1933; (2) free writing prospectus referring to the providing ready by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant; (3) the portion of another free writing prospectus or commercial pursuant to Rule 482 underneath the Securities Act of 1933 referring to the providing containing materials details about the undersigned Registrant or its securities offered by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and (4) another communication that’s a proposal within the providing made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

 

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  (a)

For the needs of figuring out any legal responsibility underneath the Securities Act of 1933, the data omitted from the type of prospectus filed as a part of a registration assertion in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained within the type of prospectus filed by the Registrant underneath Rule 424(b)(1) underneath the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement as of the time it was declared efficient.

 

  (b)

For the aim of figuring out any legal responsibility underneath the Securities Act of 1933, every post-effective modification that comprises a type of prospectus shall be deemed to be a brand new registration assertion referring to the securities supplied therein, and the providing of the securities at the moment shall be deemed to be the preliminary bona fide providing thereof.

 

(5)

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for functions of figuring out any legal responsibility underneath the Securities Act of 1933, every submitting of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that’s integrated by reference into the registration assertion shall be deemed to be a brand new registration assertion referring to the securities supplied therein, and the providing of such securities at the moment shall be deemed to be the preliminary bona fide providing thereof.

 

(6)

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising underneath the Securities Act of 1933 could also be permitted to administrators, officers and controlling individuals of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or in any other case, the Registrant has been suggested that within the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is towards public coverage as expressed within the Securities Act of 1933 and is, due to this fact, unenforceable. In the occasion {that a} declare for indemnification towards such liabilities (aside from the fee by the Registrant of bills incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling particular person of the Registrant within the profitable protection of any motion, go well with or continuing) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling particular person in reference to the securities being registered, the Registrant will, except within the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, undergo a courtroom of acceptable jurisdiction the query whether or not such indemnification by it’s towards public coverage as expressed within the Securities Act of 1933 and will probably be ruled by the ultimate adjudication of such challenge.

 

(7)

The Registrant undertakes to ship by top quality mail or different means designed to make sure equally immediate supply inside two enterprise days of receipt of a written or oral request, any prospectus or Statement of Additional Information constituting Part B of this Registration Statement.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the necessities of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Trust has duly precipitated this Post-Effective Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly licensed, within the City of New York, and the State of New York, on the twenty ninth day of May, 2026.

 

BLACKROCK SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY TRUST

By:  

/s/ John M. Perlowski

  John M. Perlowski
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the necessities of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to its Registration Statement has been signed by the next individuals within the capacities indicated and on the twenty ninth day of May, 2026.

 

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ John M. Perlowski

   Trustee, President and Chief Executive Officer
(John M. Perlowski)    (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Trent Walker

   Chief Financial Officer
(Trent Walker)    (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

CYNTHIA L. EGAN*

   Trustee
(Cynthia L. Egan)   

LORENZO A. FLORES*

   Trustee
(Lorenzo A. Flores)   

STAYCE D. HARRIS*

   Trustee
(Stayce D. Harris)   

J. PHILLIP HOLLOMAN*

   Trustee
(J. Phillip Holloman)   

R. GLENN HUBBARD*

   Trustee
(R. Glenn Hubbard)   

W. CARL OkESTER*

   Trustee
(W. Carl Kester)   

ARTHUR P. STEINMETZ*

   Trustee
(Arthur P. Steinmetz)   

ROBERT FAIRBAIRN*

   Trustee
(Robert Fairbairn)   

*By: /s/ Janey Ahn

  
(Janey Ahn, Attorney-In-Fact)   

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description

(h)(1)   Distribution Agreement
(h)(2)   Sub-Placement Agent Agreement
(l)(2)   Opinion and Consent of Counsel
(s)(2)   Calculation of Filing Fee Tables (Final Prospectus dated April 23, 2026)



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