(1) All references to a part, title, article or section number or letter refer to the part, title, article or section so numbered or lettered in this chapter, and all references in any section of this chapter to a numbered or lettered subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, item or clause refer to the subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, item or clause so numbered or lettered in such section.

(2) All references to former provisions of chapter twenty-eight of the consolidated laws refer to provisions of the former insurance law enacted by chapter eight hundred eighty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-nine.

(b) In other laws of this state, references to the former insurance law repealed by this chapter, and to any article, section or other provision thereof, refer to this chapter and its provisions which correspond to the repealed article, section or other provision.