SCHEDULE 1Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme

Part OAdded years

86Interruption of service

1

This rule applies—

a

where an MSP member buying added years by monthly instalments stops being an MSP before paying the last instalment, and

b

where an office-holder member (who is not an MSP) buying added years by monthly instalments stops holding his or her current office (or becomes an MSP) before paying the last instalment.

2

Where this rule applies no more instalments are payable and the individual’s reckonable service as an MSP or, as the case may be, office-holder is increased—

a

where the individual died or left the scheme in circumstances entitling him or her to a serious ill-health pension, by the number of added years by which it would have increased if all the instalments had been paid, or

b

where the individual leaves the scheme in any other circumstance, by a number of added years calculated as follows—

A×BCmath

where—

  • “A” is the number of added years the individual applied to buy,

  • “B” is the period (in days) in respect of which instalments have been paid, and

  • “C” is the period (in days) for which instalments would have been paid had the individual remained in the scheme continuously.