GOVERNMENT SECURITIES DEFINED.

SEC. 208. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES DEFINED. Section 3(a)(42) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(42)) is amended— (1) by striking “or” at the end of subparagraph (C); (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (D) and inserting “; or”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: “(E) for purposes of sections 15, 15C, and 17A as applied to a bank, a qualified Canadian government obligation as defined in section 5136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.”.