(a) A privilege pertaining to a security giving the holder the privilege to convert such security into another security of the same insurer is not a sale of such other security.

(b) A right pertaining to a security and entitling the holder of such right to subscribe to another security of the same insurer is not a sale of such other security, but the sale of such other security upon the exercise of such right shall be subject to the provisions of this article.

(Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 256.)