Amendment of section 175 of Principal Act (blind pension).
26.—Section 175 of the Principal Act (as amended by the Amendment Act of 1981) is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:
“(1) Every blind person who has attained the age of 18 years shall be entitled to receive and to continue to receive such pension (in this Act referred to as a blind pension) as under this Chapter he would be entitled to receive if he had attained pensionable age; and the provisions of this Chapter shall apply in all respects in the case of such person subject to the modification that, for the statutory condition contained in section 159 (1) (a) there shall be substituted the conditions that the person must be a person who has attained the age of 18 years and that he is so blind that he either cannot perform any work for which eyesight is essential or cannot continue his ordinary occupation.”.
