Veterans who are blinded as a result of a war-caused injury or war-caused disease do not need to satisfy any of the other criteria in section 24. If they meet the blinded requirement, then section 24 applies to them and they are entitled to pension at the special rate.
The subsection provides as follows:
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Subsection 24(3) (3) This section also applies to a veteran who has been blinded in both eyes as a result of war-caused injury or war-caused disease, or both.
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Subsection 5D(3) provides a definition of blinded in an eye. It provides:
(3)
For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to have been blinded in an eye if:(a) the person has lost the eye; or
(b) in the opinion of the Commission, the eyesight of the person in that eye is so defective that the person has no useful sight in that eye.