S.L. 111.1 Art. 34Provisions as to personsadmitted hospitals, etc.

(1) Where a person to whom a pension may be or has been to awarded under this Scheme in respect of an injury is being maintained in an institution to which this article applies for the purpose of receiving medical treatment for that injury, the Committee may reduce that pension by such an amount as they may think fit, having regard to the fact that the person is being so maintained.

(2) Where a person to whom a pension may be or has been awarded under this scheme is being maintained in an institution to which this article applies otherwise than for the purpose of receiving medical treatment for a qualifying injury, or where a wife to whom an allowance may be or has been awarded under article 12(3) of this Scheme is being maintained in such an institution otherwise than for the purpose of receiving such treatment the Committee may deduct from that pension or allowance, as the case may be, such an amount in respect of the maintenance of that person or wife in that institution as the Committee may think fit having regard to all the circumstances of the case, and may pay the amount so deducted to the body or person having the management of that institution.

(3) This article applies to any institution which is supported wholly or partly out of public funds and is a port-house, hospital, convalescent home, mental hospital, asylum, infirmary or other similar institution.