EXHIBIT (8)(d)(i)
AMENDMENT TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
This Amendment to the Fund Participation Agreement ("Agreement") dated
July 1, 1996, as amended, between Janus Aspen Series, an open-end management
investment company organized as a Delaware business trust (the "Trust"), and
G.E. Life and Annuity Assurance Company (formerly The Life Insurance Company of
Virginia), a Virginia life insurance company (the "Company") is effective as of
March 1, 2000.
AMENDMENT
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For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:
1. If the Company elects to include any such materials on its Website or
other computer or electronic format, the company assumes sole responsibility
for maintaining such materials in the form provided by the Trust and for
promptly replacing such materials with all updates provided by the Trust.
2. The Agreement shall cover investment by the Company's Separate Accounts
in Institutional Shares and Service Shares, two separate classes of shares
issued by the Portfolios of Janus Aspen Series. All references to "shares" in
the Agreement shall refer to shares of either of these classes, as applicable.
All other terms of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused their duly authorized officers
to execute this Amendment as of the date and year first above written.
G.E. LIFE AND ANNUITY ASSURANCE
COMPANY
By:
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Name:
Title:
JANUS ASPEN SERIES
By:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
