①In view of the fact that criminal provisions on sexual harm have the characteristic that the scope of what is punishable should be appropriately determined in light of how society perceives it, and that amendments to them have responded to the actual state of sexual harm in each era and to changes in social awareness of it, among other things, when five years have elapsed after this Act comes into effect, the Government is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of each law as amended by this Act and the provisions of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of electronic or magnetic records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles (Act No. 67 of 2023) (hereinafter referred to as the "provisions of the new Penal Code, etc."), and, while also taking into account the actual state of sexual harm after the provisions of the new Penal Code, etc. come into effect, and how society perceives it and social awareness, in particular awareness concerning sexual consent, is to promptly review what measures should be taken to respond in line with the actual state of cases involving sexual offenses, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results.

②The Government is to conduct the necessary surveys on the difficulty of reporting sexual harm and other aspects of the actual state of sexual harm, so that the review referred to in the preceding paragraph will be more evidence-based.