Part 2 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following Chapter after Chapter 12A:

"CHAPTER 12AA Jobseeker's pay-related benefit

68KA. Definitions (Chapter 12AA)

In this Chapter -

'applicable period' means a period constituted by a number of consecutive applicable weeks;

'applicable week' has the meaning given to it by section 68KB(1);

'relevant date', in relation to a person, means the later of -

(a) the date on which regulations under subsection (1)(a) or (2) of section 68KC are made in relation to the person, or

(b) such date after the making of regulations referred to in paragraph (a) as may be prescribed in such regulations, either generally or for one or more specific purposes.

68KB. Entitlement to benefit

(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall be entitled to jobseeker's pay-related benefit in respect of a period beginning on a Monday and ending on the Sunday following that Monday where -

(a) at the beginning of that period, the person is -

(i) under pensionable age, or

(ii) 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),