{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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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/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The SPCB must pay a grant (an “office-holder resettlement grant”) to an individual who—\n(a) stops being the holder of a pensionable office, and\n(b) is not appointed as the holder of a pensionable office during the following 90 days.\n(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.\n“appropriate percentage” means—\n(a)in the case of the Presiding Officer or First Minister, the higher of—\n(i)50%, and\n(ii)X%, “X” being equal to—\nA12×100where “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),\n(b) in any other case, 25%.\n(3) An office-holder resettlement grant is not payable—\n(a) to the personal representatives of an individual who—\n(i) stops holding a pensionable office because he or she dies, or\n(ii) dies during the period of 90 days after the individual stops holding a pensionable office, or\n(b) to any individual who, on the day this paragraph comes into force, is or has been—\n(i) the Presiding Officer, or\n(ii) the First Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:42.892423+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."
}