Schedule 2 grants Payable on Leaving Office
461.As indicated earlier the SSRB report in November 1998, in addition to pensions and pay, covered resettlement grants, ill-health retirement grants and severance arrangements. In relation to gratuities to individuals ceasing to be Members of the Scottish Parliament, it recommended similar provisions to those at Westminster:
	a resettlement grant payable to an MSP who at the election does not stand for re-election or who stands but is not re-elected;
	an ill-health retirement grant payable to an MSP who resigns because of ill-health before attaining age 65. The level of grant is specified as equal to the level of resettlement grant which would have been available had the Member not been re-elected rather than resigning on health grounds; and
	a severance payment payable to relevant remunerated office-holders under age 65 who cease to hold those offices.
462.These recommendations were taken forward in the Grants Order which is replaced by the provisions in Schedule 2 (see article 2 of the Grants Order which anticipated the replacement of that Order with provisions such as those made under section 81(3) of the 1998 Act).
463.While payments of the grants are not made from the Pension Fund, there is a linkage to the ill-health retirement criteria (see rules 47 and 48 of Schedule 1). Membership of the pension scheme is not, however, a criterion for payment of one of the grants but replacement of the 1999 pensions order offered a suitable opportunity to replace the Grants Order.
464.Schedule 2, introduced by section 2 (see paragraph 26), sets out the provisions in relation to grants payable to individuals after they have served as MSPs and office-holders. Specifically, provision is made for the payment of an MSP resettlement grant, MSP ill-health retirement grant and office-holder resettlement grant. The provisions replace those in the Grants Order.