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FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 22 day of July, 2013 by and between GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST, statutory trust formed under the laws of Delaware (the “Trust”), GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO., a New York limited partnership (the “Distributor”), and GREAT-WEST LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a Colorado life insurance company (“GWLA”), and GREAT-WEST LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, a New York life insurance company (“GWLA-NY), (GWLA and GWLA-NY are collectively referred to as the “Company”), on its own behalf and on behalf of each separate account of the Company identified herein, collectively the Parties.

WHEREAS, the Company, the Trust and the Distributor are parties to a Participation Agreement dated April 19, 2013 (the “Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, the Parties desire to add several separate Accounts; and

WHEREAS, the Parties desire and agree to amend the Agreement by adding Schedule 3 to the Agreement as provided in the attachment hereto.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of their mutual promises, the Trust, the Distributor and the Company agree as follows:

1.    All references to Schedule 3 Accounts now refer to those Accounts listed on Schedule 3A.

2.    All references to Schedule 3 Contracts now refer to those Contracts listed on Schedule 3B.

3.    Section 2.3(a) of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

(a) The Trust hereby appoints the Company as an agent for the limited purpose of receiving purchase and redemption requests for Trust Shares by Owners of Contracts to the extent such Owners make such requests indirectly through their purchase and redemption requests for units of the . As a limited agent for the Trust, receipt of requests for the purchase and redemption of units of the Accounts on any Business Day by the Company prior to the Trust’s close of business, as disclosed from time to time in the applicable Prospectus for such Series or Class (which as of the date of execution of this Agreement is the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange), shall constitute receipt by the Trust on that Business Day of requests from such Accounts for the purchase and redemption of Trust Shares necessary to facilitate such purchase and redemption of units of such Accounts. This limited agency only extends to requests by the Accounts for the purchase and redemption of


Trust Shares that the Trust (or its transfer agent) receives by 9:00 a.m. New York Time on the next following Business Day. Such requests for the purchase and redemption of Trust Shares may be communicated by facsimile, electronic mail, or telephone to the office or person designated by the Trust and shall be confirmed by facsimile or electronic mail.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Agreement to be executed in its name and behalf by its duly authorized officer on the date specified below.

 

    GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
              (Trust)  
Date:  7/22/13     By:   /s/ Greg Wilson  
          Name: Greg Wilson  
          Title:   Managing Director  
    GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.  
                (Distributor)  
Date:  7/22/13     By:   /s/ Greg Wilson  
          Name: Greg Wilson  
          Title:   Managing Director  
    GREAT-WEST LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY
                   (Company)  
Date:  8/5/13     By:   /s/ Ron Laeyendecker  
          Name: Ron Laeyendecker  
          Title:   Senior Vice-President  
    GREAT-WEST LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
                   (Company)  
Date:  8.5.13     By:   /s/ Susan Gile  
          Name: Susan Gile  
          Title:   V. P., Individual Markets  

 

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SCHEDULE 3

Schedule 3A

Separate Accounts of the Company Excluded From the Definition of an Investment

Company as Provided for by Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act

  The following separate accounts of the Company are subject to the Agreement:

Name of Account   

Date Established by

Board of Directors of

the Company

      

Type of Product

Supported by Account

 

COLI VUL 7 Series

Account of GWLA

  

11/23/1999

       Variable Life Insurance

COLI VUL 1 Series

Account of GWLA

NY

   2/14/2006        Variable Life Insurance

COLI VUL 14 Series

Account of GWLA

   1/30/2001        Variable Life Insurance

Schedule 3B

Variable Annuity Contracts and Variable Life Insurance Contracts Not Registered Under

the Securities Act of 1933 in Reliance Upon Section 4(2) of the Act and Regulation D

Thereunder

  The following Contracts are subject to the Agreement:

                

Name of Contract

  

Available Funds/Share        

Classes        

     Group or Individual     

Type of Product

Supported by Account

                
PPVUL   

All Series of

Goldman Sachs

Variable Insurance

Trust (Service and

Institutional Shares)

   Individual    Variable Life Insurance
                
                
PPVULrev2 - NY   

All Series of

Goldman Sachs

Variable Insurance

Trust (Service and

Institutional Shares)

   Individual    Variable Life Insurance
ICC13-J600/J600   

All Series of

Goldman Sachs

Variable Insurance

Trust (Service and

Institutional Shares)

   Individual    Variable Life Insurance

 

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