No law of this state prescribing the nature, amount or form of security or requiring security upon which loans or investments may be made or prescribing or limiting the period for which loans or investments may be made or prescribing or limiting interest rates upon loans or investments shall be deemed to apply to loans, investments, purchases, or other acquisitions made pursuant to section 17:2-6 of this title, but nothing in said section 17:2-6 contained shall be deemed to authorize any such savings bank not otherwise authorized by law to make any mortgage loan upon real property not situated in this state, nor shall anything contained in sections 17:2-5 to 17:2-8 of this title increase the aggregate amount which any corporation specified in section 17:2-6 of this title is authorized to invest or have invested in mortgages upon real property.
N.J.S. § 17:2-8