Veterans Benefit Act (R.S.C. 1970, c. V-2)

8 [Repealed, 1993, c. 34, s. 134]

Public Service Employment Act

Marginal note:Korean War veterans

• 9 (1) Paragraph 39(1)(b) of the Public Service Employment Act applies to every person not described in subsection (2) who

  • (a) has served in or on the strength of the special force and, at the commencement of such service, was domiciled in Canada or was a Canadian citizen,

  • (b) has served in a theatre of operations, and

  • (c) has not, by reason of misconduct, ceased so to serve,

  as though that person were a veteran within the meaning of that Act.

• Marginal note:Korean War veterans pensioned for disability

  (2) Paragraph 39(1)(a) of the Public Service Employment Act applies to every person who

  • (a) is in receipt of a pension under the Pension Act for disability resulting from an injury or disease or an aggravation thereof that was attributable to or was incurred during service in or on the strength of the special force or during service in a theatre of operations;

  • (b) at the commencement of his service in or on the strength of the special force, was domiciled in Canada or was a Canadian citizen;

  • (c) has, from causes attributable to his service in or on the strength of the special force, lost the capacity for physical exertion to such an extent as to render him unfit efficiently to pursue the vocation that he was pursuing before such service; and

  • (d) has not been successfully re-established in some other vocation.

Marginal note:Application

10 The Public Service Superannuation Act applies, in such manner and to such extent as the Governor in Council may prescribe, to and in respect of every person who was enrolled for the purpose of serving in the special force, and every officer and non-commissioned member of the regular forces or the reserve forces who served on the strength of the special force, as though his service on the strength of the special force were active service in the forces during World War II within the meaning of that Act.

11 [Repealed, 1988, c. 2, s. 68]

Marginal note:Existing rights preserved

12 Nothing in this Act shall be held to prejudice any right, benefit or privilege that any person had, under any of the enactments to which this Act applies, prior to the 26th day of June 1954.