One of the features of New Fair Deal is that staff, whose employment was transferred to an independent contractor under old Fair Deal before October 2013, can now rejoin Civil Service Pensions when the contract is renewed or in certain circumstances before the contract ends (with the agreement of the contracting authority). The current or new employer will be admitted to Civil Service Pensions under Fair Deal and eligible employees will rejoin the scheme for future service.
Individuals that were previously a member of Civil Service Pensions will rejoin the scheme that they would have been in (depending on their protection status in 2015) had they not left Civil Service Pensions.