(1) Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Chapter referred to as "pre-retirement allowance") shall be payable in respect of any period of retirement to a person -
(a) who has attained the age specified by regulations but has not attained pensionable age,
(b) whose weekly means, subject to subsection (4), do not exceed the amount of pre-retirement allowance (including any increases of that allowance) that would be payable to the person under this Chapter if that person had no means, and
(i) who has been in receipt of jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance in respect of not less than 390 days of unemployment in any continuous period of unemployment in the immediately preceding period as read in accordance with section 141 (3),
(ii) being a separated spouse, has not engaged in remunerative employment or self-employment at any time in the preceding period that may be prescribed, or
(iia) being a civil partner who is not living with the other civil partner of the civil partne
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