(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (5), an annual grant (in this Act referred to as a "carer's support grant") in the amount €2,000 shall be payable to a carer in respect of each relevant person in his or her care and only one such annual grant shall be payable in respect of a relevant person.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a grant shall not be payable to a carer where -

(a) he or she engages in employment, self-employment, or any course of education or training, or

(b) he or she is entitled to or in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's benefit (self-employed), jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's pay-related benefit, or

(c) he or she is a person to whom article 58 of the Regulations of 1996 applies in respect of proven unemployment, or

(d) [deleted]

(e) the relevant person is resident in an institution.