Insofar as the provisions of this Article are inconsistent with the provisions of any general or special laws, or parts thereof, the provisions of this Article shall be controlling, except that no provision of the 1971 amendments to this Article shall apply to scholarships for children of war veterans as set forth in Part 2 of Article 14 of Chapter 143B of the N.C. Gen. Stat., as amended. (1971, c. 392, s. 11; 2015-241, s. 24.1(s); 2015-268, s. 7.3(a).)