Adjustment of disablement pension during hospital treatment

(1) Where a person who has been awarded a disablement pension on in respect of disablement assessed at less than one hundred per cent receives medical treatment as an in–patient in a hospital or similar institution for the relevant injury or loss of faculty his degree of disablement shall be treated as assessed at one hundred per cent for the period during which he receives such treatment. (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), a person who receives hospital treatment as an in–patient for two or more distinct periods separated by an interval of less than one week in each case shall be treated as receiving such treatment continuously from the beginning of the first period until the end of the last.