(1) A person shall be disqualified for receiving unemployment assistance while he is -
(a) an inmate of an institution maintained wholly or partly out of public moneys or by a local authority,
(b) entitled to or in receipt of unemployment benefit under Part II, or
(c) employed during any week under a scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as the Social Employment Scheme.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), regulations may provide, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, that a person who is entitled to or in receipt of unemployment benefit under Part II shall not be disqualified for receiving unemployment assistance:
Provided that any such regulations shall not cause a person to receive both unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance or to receive both unemployment assistance and pay-related benefit in respect of the same day or days.
(3) A person who has lost employment by reason of a stoppage of work which was due to a trade dispute at the fa