As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 2019

Securities Act File No. 33-43446

Investment Company Act File No. 811-06444

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	☒
Pre-Effective Amendment No.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 428	☒
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	☒
Amendment No. 428
(Check appropriate box or boxes)

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

620 Eighth Avenue, 49th Floor, New York, New York	10018
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code (877) 721-1926

Robert I. Frenkel

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

100 First Stamford Place

Stamford, Connecticut 06902

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

COPY TO:

Benjamin J. Haskin, Esq.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

1875 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

Continuous

(Approximate Date of Proposed Offering)

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

☐ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

☒ on February 28, 2019 pursuant to paragraph (b)

☐ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

☐ on            pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

☐ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

☐ on            pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

☒ This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This filing relates solely to QS SMASh Series ID Fund.

Part A – Prospectus, Part B – Statement of Additional Information and Part C of QS SMASh Series ID Fund are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 424 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2018 (Accession No. 0001193125-18-328852).

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant, LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST, hereby certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Baltimore, State of Maryland on this 29th day of January, 2019.

LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST, on behalf of QS SMASh Series ID Fund.

By:	/s/ Jane Trust
	Jane Trust
	President and Chief Executive Officer

WITNESS our hands on the date set forth below.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on January 29, 2019.

Signature	Title
/s/ Jane Trust	President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee
Jane Trust
/s/ Richard F. Sennett	Principal Financial Officer
Richard F. Sennett
Paul R. Ades*	Trustee
Paul R. Ades
Andrew L. Breech*	Trustee
Andrew L. Breech
Dwight B. Crane*	Trustee
Dwight B. Crane
Althea L. Duersten*	Trustee
Althea L. Duersten
Frank G. Hubbard*	Trustee
Frank G. Hubbard
Howard J. Johnson*	Trustee
Howard J. Johnson
Jerome H. Miller*	Trustee
Jerome H. Miller
Ken Miller*	Trustee
Ken Miller

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Thomas F. Schlafly*	Trustee
Thomas F. Schlafly

*By:	/s/ Jane Trust
	Jane Trust, as Agent

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