Constant attendance allowance

(1) An insured person who is entitled to disablement benefit in respect of disablement assessed at one hundred per centum shall also be entitled to constant attendance allowance at the prescribed rate and for so long as he is so severely incapacitated 30 as to require constantly the personal attendance of another (2) The existence of the degree of incapacity qualifying an insured person for constant attendance allowance shall be verified by such medical board or medical practitioner as may be prescribed or as the Chief Executive Officer may consider necessary or practicable. (3) Except as regulations may otherwise provide, constant attendance allowance shall not be payable to an insured person for any period during which he receives treatment as an inpatient free of charge at a hospital or if the cost of such treatment is paid in whole or in part out of the Fund.