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SCHEDULE 1SScottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme

Part J SSurviving partners and children

Chapter 2SPartner's pension etc.

Duration of partner's pensionS

60(1)A partner's pension is payable from the day after the day on which the deceased partner died.S

(2)Pension payments need not begin unless the individual entitled to them has given the Fund trustees—

(a)notice of that entitlement, and

(b)such information as they may reasonably require—

(i)about the surviving partner's entitlement to any other pension,

(ii)to calculate their liability for a lifetime allowance charge or any other tax,

(iii)to make the payments.

This rule does not affect the date from which a partner's pension is payable.

(3)Pension payments are to continue for the rest of the surviving partner's life.

(4)Pension payments are to be made monthly in arrears (or in such other instalments of no longer than one year as the Fund trustees may determine).