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3Modification of pension schemes etc.

(1)The Scottish Parliament may resolve to modify—

(a)the Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme,

(b)the grants scheme set out in schedule 2, or

(c)the pension scheme for First Ministers and Presiding Officers which is comprised in Part S of the 1999 pensions order.

(2)A resolution may, in particular, modify—

(a)the rules set out in schedule 1,

(b)schedules 2 or 3, or

(c)the 1999 pensions order.

(3)A resolution may—

(a)make different provision for different purposes,

(b)make provision having retrospective effect.

(4)The Clerk of the Parliament must send a copy of a resolution to the Queen’s Printer for Scotland immediately after it is passed.

Articles 5, 7(1), 8 and 9 of the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1096) apply in relation to that copy resolution as if it were a Scottish statutory instrument.