After the period specified in Sections 1153 and 1153.5, the requirements of those sections shall no longer be applicable to any insurer specified therein and shall no longer affect or modify the application or nonapplication of any section of this code.
The provisions of Sections 1153 and 1153.5 shall not govern or limit the investments of any insurer formed by merger, consolidation, or reinsurance of the entire business of any one or more admitted insurers if any one or more of the merged, consolidated, reinsuring or reinsured insurers was, prior to such consolidation, merger, or reinsurance, admitted, or authorized to do business as an insurer in any state, for a period of three or more years.
(Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 339.)