{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-scottish-parliamentary-pension-scheme-order-1999/article-D2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-scottish-parliamentary-pension-scheme-order-1999/article-D2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1082",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-scottish-parliamentary-pension-scheme-order-1999",
  "path": "article/D2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "D2",
  "heading": "Earnings cap",
  "text": "Where the annual salary of a participating member as–\n(a) a member of the Parliament;\n(b) an office holder; or\n(c) both a member of the Parliament and an office holder,\nexceeds the permitted maximum, the contributions deducted from that annual salary shall be limited to 6% of that permitted maximum and where sub-paragraph (c) applies his contributions under article D1 in respect of his office holder’s salary shall be reduced before his contributions under that article in respect of his member’s salary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1082/article/D2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:54.717733+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."
}