41. Conditions for receipt.

(1) The contribution conditions for illness benefit are -

(a) that the claimant has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 104 contribution weeks in the period between his or her entry into insurance and the day for which the benefit is claimed, and

(b) that the claimant -

(i) has qualifying contributions or credited contributions in respect of not less than 39 contribution weeks, of which at least 13 must be qualifying contributions, in the second last complete contribution year before the beginning of the benefit year which includes the day for which the benefit is claimed, or

(ii) has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 26 contribution weeks in each of the second last and third last complete contribution years before the beginning of the benefit year which includes the day for which the benefit is claimed,

and

(c) that the claimant has -

(i) prescribed reckonable weekly earnings, or

(ia) prescribed weekly earnings, in the case of a person who immediat

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