As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2025

 

Registration File No. 333-232740
811-07337

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

FORM N-6

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933  ☒

Pre-Effective Amendment No. ☐

Post-Effective Amendment No. 18 ☒

and

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF

1940  ☒

Amendment No. 125 ☒

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 

Protective Variable Life Separate Account

(Exact name of registrant)

 

Protective Life Insurance Company

(Name of depositor)

 

2801 Highway 280 South

Birmingham, Alabama 35223

(Address of depositor’s principal executive offices)

 

(800) 265-1545

Depositor’s Telephone Number, including Area Code

 

BRANDON J. CAGE, Esq.

2801 Highway 280 South

Birmingham, Alabama 35223

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Copy to:

STEPHEN E. ROTH, Esquire

THOMAS E. BISSET, Esquire

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

700 Sixth Street, N.W., Suite 700

Washington, DC 20001-3980

 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

 

☐ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485

☒ on September 29, 2025, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485

☐ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485

☐ on ________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485

If appropriate check the following box:

☒ this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for previously filed amendment.

 

Title of Securities Being Registered: Interests in Individual
Flexible Premium Variable and Fixed Life Insurance Policies

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 18 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-6 is being filed pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of Rule 485 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) solely for the purpose of delaying, until September 29, 2025, the effectiveness of the registration statement, filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 17 on June 27, 2025, SEC Accession Number (0001104659-25-063419), pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485 of the 1933 Act.

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 18 incorporates by reference the information contained in the Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information and Part C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 17.

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant of this Registration Statement certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form N-6 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Birmingham, State of Alabama, on August 27, 2025.

 

PROTECTIVE VARIABLE LIFE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
By:	*
Richard J. Bielen, President
Protective Life Insurance Company
PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
By:	*
Richard J. Bielen, President
Protective Life Insurance Company

 

As required by the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form N-6 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

Signature			Title		Date
*			Chairman of the Board, President		*
Richard J. Bielen			Chief Executive Officer, and Director
			(Principal Executive Officer)
*			Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer		*
Wade V. Harrison			and Director
*			Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Director		*
Paul R. Wells			(Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)
*BY:	/S/ BRANDON J. CAGE				August 27, 2025
Brandon J. Cage
Attorney-in-Fact