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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-84",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/84",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A participating member may increase his or her reckonable service by buying added years in accordance with this Part.\n(2) Added years can be bought as years and as fractions of years.\n(3) An individual who is an MSP member may apply to buy added years in respect of reckonable service as an MSP only.\n(4) An individual who is an office-holder member but not an MSP may apply to buy added years in respect of reckonable service as an office-holder only.",
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  "status": null,
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/schedule/1/paragraph/84",
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  },
  "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."
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