(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall be entitled to the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment in respect of any week where -
(a) the person has attained the age of 18 years and has not attained pensionable age,
(b) on or after 13 March 2020, the person was -
(ba) in relation to a person in respect of whom paragraph (b)(ii) applies, the person's earnings from self-employment, calculated in accordance with regulations under section 68P, does not exceed €960 in relation to an eight week period,
(i) an employed contributor in the week immediately before he or she ceased to earn an income from the employment concerned and lost his or her employment as a direct consequence of Covid-19 (including the adverse effects of Covid-19 on the business of his or her employer and the adverse effects of measures required to be taken by his or her employer in order to comply with, or as a consequence of, Government policy to prevent, limit, minimise or slow the spread of infection of Covid-19), or
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