(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall be entitled to jobseeker's benefit in respect of any day of unemployment (in this Part referred to as "a day of unemployment") which forms part of a period of interruption of employment, where -
(a) on the day 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 proves unemployment in the prescribed manner,
(c) he or she satisfies the contribution conditions in section 64, and
(d) other than in the case of a person engaged in casual employment or a person employed as a retained fire fighter, he or she has sustained a substantial loss of employment in any period of 7 consecutive days.
(1A) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) (b), for the purposes of that subsection a person may prove unemployment and may make a decla
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