(a) No such limitations shall apply to new life insurance certificates or new annuity contracts issued by the society before January first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight; and
(b) Limitations equal to one hundred fifty percent of the limitations established in section four thousand two hundred twenty-seven of this chapter shall apply to new life insurance certificates and new annuity contracts issued by the society after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight but before January first, two thousand; and
(c) The limitations established in section four thousand two hundred twenty-seven of this chapter shall fully apply to all new life insurance certificates and all new annuity contracts issued by the society on or after January first, two thousand.