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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-food-nation-scotland-act-2022/schedule/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "asp/2022/5",
  "legislation_title": "Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-food-nation-scotland-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Staff pensions, allowances and gratuities",
  "text": "(1) The Commission may pay, or make arrangements for the payment of, pensions, allowances and gratuities to, or in respect of, any person who is or has been a member of its staff.\n(2) But the Commission may not make those payments or arrangements without the Scottish Ministers’ approval.\n(3) The arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (1) may include—\n(a) making payments toward the provision of pensions, allowances and gratuities,\n(b) providing and maintaining schemes for the payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities.\n(4) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to pensions, allowances and gratuities includes pensions, allowances and gratuities by way of compensation for loss of office.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 20 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 20 in force at 15.2.2024 by S.S.I. 2024/29, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/5/schedule/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:22.969597+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}