(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall be entitled to jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) in respect of any payment week where -

(a) in the week for which the benefit is claimed he or she -

(i) is under pensionable age, or

(ii) is a person born on or after 1 January 1958, who has attained pensionable age but has neither attained the age of 70 years nor been awarded a State pension (contributory),

(b) he or she satisfies the contribution conditions in section 68D,

(c) subject to section 68K(3), he or she is not engaged in self-employment,

(d) he or she is capable of work,

(e) he or she is genuinely seeking, but is unable to obtain, employment suitable for him or her having regard to his or her age, physique, education, normal occupation, place of residence and family circumstances, and

(f) he or she proves unemployment in the prescribed manner.