ITEM 1.                    Plan Information*

ITEM 2.                    Registration Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*

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*          Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.

ITEM 3.                    Incorporation of Documents by Reference

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration Statement the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, SEC File Number 001-16583 filed on July 3, 2001 (the "Form 10") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.                    Description of Securities

Not applicable (the Common Stock is registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act).

ITEM 5.                    Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

The validity of the shares of Common Stock issuable under the Plans set forth on the cover page of this Registration Statement has been passed upon for the Registrant by Kenyon W. Murphy, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of the Registrant.

ITEM 6.                    Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Acuity's By-laws and Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which allows, and in some cases requires, the indemnification of directors and officers under certain circumstances, grant Acuity's directors and officers a right to indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law for all expenses relating to civil, criminal, administrative or investigative procedures to which they are a party (i) by reason of the fact that they are or were directors or officers of Acuity or (ii) by reason of the fact that, while they are or were directors or officers of Acuity, they are or were serving at the request of Acuity as a director, officer or employee of another enterprise. Acuity's By-laws further provide that an advancement for any such expenses shall only be made upon delivery to Acuity by the indemnitee of an undertaking to repay all amounts so advanced if it is ultimately determined that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by Acuity.

Acuity will also enter into indemnification agreements with certain of its directors and officers. These agreements require Acuity to indemnify these directors and officers with respect to their activities as directors or

officers of Acuity or when serving at Acuity's request as a director, officer or trustee of another corporation, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by them in any threatened, pending or completed suit or proceeding (civil, criminal administrative or investigative) to which they are, or are threatened to be made, parties as a result of their service to Acuity. Acuity will agree to indemnify each indemnitee for any one or a combination of the following, whichever is most advantageous to the indemnitee, as determined by the indemnitee (i) the benefits provided by Acuity's certificate of incorporation and By-laws in effect on the date of the indemnification agreement; (ii) the benefits provided by Acuity's certificate of incorporation and By-laws at the time expenses are incurred by the indemnitee; (iii) the benefits allowable under Delaware law in effect on the date of the indemnification agreement; (iv) the benefits allowable under the law of the jurisdiction under which Acuity exists at the time expenses are incurred by the indemnitee; (v) the benefits available under liability insurance obtained by Acuity; and (vi) such other benefits as may be otherwise available to indemnitee under Acuity's existing practices. Under the indemnification agreements, each indemnitee will continue to be indemnified even after ceasing to occupy a position as an officer, director, employee or agent of Acuity with respect to suits or proceedings arising out of acts or omissions during his service to Acuity.  Each indemnitee will agree to notify Acuity promptly of any proceeding brought or threatened and not to make any admission or settlement without Acuity's consent, unless the indemnitee determines to undertake his own defense and waives the benefits of the indemnification agreement.

ITEM 7.                    Exemption from Registration Claimed

Not applicable.

ITEM 8.                    Exhibits

ITEM 9.                    Undertakings

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

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provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Acuity Brands, Inc. has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 2001.