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EXHIBIT (a)(4)
WRITTEN INSTRUMENT AMENDING THE
AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
OF PACIFIC SELECT FUND
RESOLVED, that the undersigned, being a majority of the Trustees of Pacific
Select Fund, a Massachusetts business trust (the "Trust"), acting pursuant to
Section 6.2 of the Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust,
dated October 28, 1999 and amended on April 28, 2000 ("Declaration of Trust"),
and having heretofore divided the shares of beneficial interest of the Trust in
twenty one separate Series (the "Series"), hereby amend the Declaration of Trust
by designating and establishing two additional Series to be known as the
"Focused 30 Portfolio" and the "Strategic Value Portfolio", such new Series to
have the relative rights and preferences set forth in Subsections (a) through
(e) of Section 6.2 of the Declaration of Trust.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused these presents to be
executed as of the 14th day of August, 2000.
/s/ Thomas C. Sutton /s/ Lucie H. Moore
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Thomas C. Sutton Lucie H. Moore
Trustee Trustee
/s/ Richard L. Nelson /s/ Alan Richards
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Richard L. Nelson Alan Richards
Trustee Trustee
/s/ Lyman W. Porter
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Lyman W. Porter
Trustee
