Application for compensation shall be made to the Adjutant General on such forms and in such manner as he shall prescribe.
All applications shall be made (1) personally by the veteran or (2) in case of death or mental incompetency preventing the making of a personal application, then by such representative of the veterans as the Adjutant General shall by regulation prescribe. An application made by a representative other than one authorized by such regulation shall be held void.
The Adjutant General shall not accept or consider any application filed with him after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred forty-eight.
51 P.S. § 20007