# Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009, Paragraph 4


(1) The SPCB must pay a grant (an “office-holder resettlement grant”) to an individual who—
(a) stops being the holder of a pensionable office, and
(b) is not appointed as the holder of a pensionable office during the following 90 days.
(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.
“appropriate percentage” means—
(a)in the case of the Presiding Officer or First Minister, the higher of—
(i)50%, and
(ii)X%, “X” being equal to—
A12×100where “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),
(b) in any other case, 25%.
(3) An office-holder resettlement grant is not payable—
(a) to the personal representatives of an individual who—
(i) stops holding a pensionable office because he or she dies, or
(ii) dies during the period of 90 days after the individual stops holding a pensionable office, or
(b) to any individual who, on the day this paragraph comes into force, is or has been—
(i) the Presiding Officer, or
(ii) the First Minister.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/schedule/2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-4
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