Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (asp 1)

SCHEDULE 2 Grants payable on leaving office

Office-holder resettlement grant

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.