When the application of any such war orphan shall have been granted in the first instance as herein provided, then the maximum number of annual allotments provided by section 38:20-3 of this title may be granted to such applicant for and during consecutive years regardless of the fact such applicant shall be over the age of twenty-one years at the time of the granting of any such annual allotment subsequent to the first.
N.J.S. § 38:20-4