The Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2026

Made: 19th March 2026

Coming into force: 20th March 2026

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 72 of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025[^f00001], and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2026, and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Amendment of the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009

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• (1) The Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In schedule 1—

• (a) in rule 38(2) (amount of MSP pension), for “82(2)”, substitute “82”,

• (b) in rule 95 (pension reduction for dual mandate MSPs), for “82(2)”, in each of the three places it occurs, substitute “82”.

• (3) In schedule 2, in paragraph 3(2) (amount of MSP grants), for “82(2)” substitute “82”.

Signed

GRAEME DEY — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 19th March 2026

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations update references to section 82(2) of the Scotland Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) in schedules 1 and 2 of the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (“the 2009 Act”), specifically to replace references to section 82(2) with broader references to section 82 of the 1998 Act.

These changes are required in consequence of provision made by the Scottish Parliament (Disqualification of Councillors) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/306) and the Scottish Parliament (Disqualification of Members of the House of Commons) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/307). Those instruments were made in exercise of the powers in sections 3 and 5 of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 and made amendments to section 82 of the 1998Act. This instrument ensures that those amendments to section 82 of the 1998 Act are reflected in the relevant places in the 2009 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2025 asp 4.

[^f00002]: 2009 asp 1.