Veterans Benefit 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.