Exhibit (a)(71)

JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST

Establishment and Designation

of Additional Series of Shares of Beneficial Interest

($0.01 par value per share)

The undersigned, being a majority of the Trustees of John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust (the “Trust”), acting pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust dated September 29, 1988 (the “Declaration of Trust”) hereby establish and designate the following new Series of Shares (as defined in the Declaration of Trust), such Series of Shares to have the following special and relative rights:

1.The new Series of Shares shall be designated:

Lifestyle Aggressive PS Series

2.The new Series of Shares shall have the relative rights and preferences described in Section 4.2 of the Declaration of Trust, provided that the Trustees, in their absolute discretion, may amend any previously established relative rights and preferences as they may deem necessary or desirable to enable the Trust to comply with the Investment Company Act of 1940 or other applicable law.

In witness whereof, the undersigned have executed this instrument in duplicate original counterparts and have caused a duplicate original to be lodged among the records of the Trust this ___ day of _________, 2013.

_______________________	_______________________
Charles L. Bardelis	James R. Boyle
_______________________	_______________________
Craig Bromley	Peter S. Burgess
_______________________	_______________________
William H. Cunningham	Grace K. Fey
_______________________	_______________________
Theron S. Hoffman	Deborah C. Jackson
_______________________	_______________________
Hassell H. McClellan	James M. Oates
_______________________	_______________________
Steven R. Pruchansky	Gregory A. Russo
_______________________
Warren A Thomson

The Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust, dated September 29, 1988, a copy of which together with all amendments thereto is on file in the office of the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provides that this instrument was executed by the Trustees of the Trust as Trustees and not individually and that the obligations of this instrument are not binding upon any of them or the shareholders of the Trust individually, but are binding only upon the assets belonging to the Trust, or the particular Series of Shares in question, as the case may be.