Schedule 1 Part J Surviving Partners and Children
232.Part J of Schedule 1 covers the pension entitlement of surviving partners and children of current or former MSPs or office-holders who were at the time of their death a scheme member, scheme pensioner or deferred pensioner. The rules covering these pensions comply with the rules in section 167 and Part 2 of Schedule 28 of the Finance Act 2004 (which set out the rules relating to payment of pension death benefits by a registered pension scheme). The rules in Part J replace the rules contained at Part K of the 1999 pensions order.