Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009

Office-holder resettlement grant

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4(1)The SPCB must pay a grant (an “office-holder resettlement grant”) to an individual who—

(a)stops being the holder of a pensionable office, and

(b)is not appointed as the holder of a pensionable office during the following 90 days.

(2)The amount of an office-holder resettlement grant is to be equal to the appropriate percentage of the annual office-holder salary payable to the individual when the individual left office.

  • “appropriate percentage” means—

    (a)

    in the case of the Presiding Officer or First Minister, the higher of—

    (i)

    50%, and

    (ii)

    X%, “X” being equal to—

    where “A” is the number of complete continuous years for which the individual has been Presiding Officer or First Minister (up to a maximum of 12),

    (b)

    in any other case, 25%.

(3)An office-holder resettlement grant is not payable—

(a)to the personal representatives of an individual who—

(i)stops holding a pensionable office because he or she dies, or

(ii)dies during the period of 90 days after the individual stops holding a pensionable office, or

(b)to any individual who, on the day this paragraph comes into force, is or has been—

(i)the Presiding Officer, or

(ii)the First Minister.