(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall be entitled to jobseeker's pay-related benefit in respect of a period beginning on a Monday and ending on the Sunday following that Monday where -

(a) at the beginning of that period, the person is -

(i) under pensionable age, or

(ii) 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) the person satisfies the contribution conditions in or under section 68KD,

(c) subject to subsection (2), the person -

(i) is unemployed for the entirety of that period and proves such unemployment in the prescribed manner, or

(ii) subject to regulations under section 68KC(2), sustains a substantial loss of employment during that period and proves such loss in the prescribed manner,

and

(d) the unemployment or loss, as the case may be, referred to in paragraph (c) begins on or after the relevant date,