(a) Except as provided in § 1114B of this title, the minimum standard of valuation for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the operative date of this section and for annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after the operative date under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, shall be the Commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in §§ 1115 and 1115A of this title and the following tables and interest rates:
(1) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued prior to July 8, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts:
the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, or any modification of this table approved by the Commissioner, and 6% interest for single premium immediate annuity contracts and 4% interest for all other individual annuity and pure endowment contracts;(2) For individual single premium immediate annuity contracts issued on or after July 8, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts:
the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table or any individual annuity mortality table adopted after 1980 by the NAIC that is approved by regulation promulgated by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for these contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the Commissioner, and 71/2% interest;(3) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after July 8, 1980, other than single premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts:
the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table or any individual annuity mortality table adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by regulation promulgated by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for those contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the Commissioner, and 51/2% interest for single premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts and 41/2% interest for all other individual annuity and pure endowment contracts;(4) For annuities and pure endowments purchased prior to July 8, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under those contracts:
the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table or any modification of this table approved by the Commissioner, and 6% interest; and(5) For annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after July 8, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under those contracts:
the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table, or any group annuity mortality table adopted after 1980 by the NAIC that is approved by regulation promulgated by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for annuities and pure endowments, or any modification of these tables approved by the Commissioner, and 71/2% interest;(b) After June 21, 1973, any company may file with the Commissioner a written notice of its election to comply with the provisions of this section after a specified date before January 1, 1979, which shall be the operative date of this section for that company, provided that a company may elect a different operative date for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts from that elected for group annuity and pure endowment contracts. If a company makes no election, the operative date of this section for that company shall be January 1, 1979.