PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT Among VANGUARD VARIABLE INSURANCE FUND and THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC. and VANGUARD MARKETING CORPORATION and PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYParticipation Agreement • April 27th, 2017 • Protective Variable Life Separate Account • Pennsylvania
Contract Type FiledApril 27th, 2017 Company JurisdictionTHIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into as of the 1st day of April, 2017, by and among VANGUARD VARIABLE INSURANCE FUND (hereinafter the “Fund”), a Delaware business trust, THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC. (hereinafter the “Sponsor”), a Pennsylvania corporation, VANGUARD MARKETING CORPORATION (hereinafter the “Distributor”), a Pennsylvania corporation, and PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (hereinafter the “Company”), a Tennessee insurance company, on its own behalf and on behalf of each segregated asset account of the Company named in Schedule A hereto as may be amended from time to time (each such account hereinafter referred to as the “Account”).