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Life Ins. Co. of Am., 359 U.S. 65 (1959); SEC v. United Benefit
Life Ins. Co., 387 U.S. 202 (1967).

 
A variable annuity or other variable insurance product issued
by an investment company registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940
would be a "federal covered security," see Section 102(7). See
Lander v. Hartford Life & Annuity Ins. Co., 251 F.3d 101 (2d Cir.
2001).

 
A variable annuity or other variable insurance product not
issued by a registered investment company would be exempted by
Section 201(4), but would be subject to the antifraud provisions
in Article 5.

 
5. Section 201(5): Common carrier and public utility
securities: Prior Provisions: 1956 Act Section 401(a)(7); RUSA
Section 401(b)(5). Both the 1956 Act and RUSA include references,
omitted here, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose
enabling legislation subsequently was repealed. Public utility
holding companies covered by this exemption are subject both to
the Public Utility Holding Company Act and to state or Canadian
utility regulation.

 
6. Section 201(6): Certain options and rights: No Prior
Provision. The 1956 Act Section 402(a)(8) provided an exemption
for securities listed on the New York, American, Midwest (now
Chicago), or other designated stock exchanges, senior or
substantially equal securities of the same issuer listed on the
exchange and any security covered by listed or approved
subscription rights or warrants, or any warrant or right to
purchase or subscribe to any security exempted by Section
402(a)(8).

 
RUSA essentially retained this exemption in Section 401(b)(7)
and added securities designated for inclusion in the National
Market System by the National Association of Securities Dealers
in Section 401(b)(8) and specified options issued by a clearing
agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in
Section 401(b)(9).

 
In 1996 Congress enacted the National Securities Markets
Improvement Act and provided in Section 18(b)(1) that securities
listed on the New York, American or Nasdaq Stock Exchange, or
designated by rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
well as any security of the same issuer that is equal in
seniority or senior to any of these securities will be a federal
covered security. Under Rule 146 the SEC has designated as
federal covered securities under Section 18(b)(1) Tier I of the
Pacific Exchange; Tier I of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange; and


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