This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2007.

With regard to a dispute subject to the mediation referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes (Act No. 112 of 2001) that is pending before the dispute coordinating committee referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of that Act (hereinafter referred to as the "committee") at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16 of the Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act").

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 24 of the new Act to the claim which is the purpose of a conciliation under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 that is pending in the committee at the time this Act comes into effect, the conciliation is deemed to have been applied for at the time this Act comes into effect.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

If five years have elapsed since this Act came into effect, the government is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the new Act and of the provisions of Article 64-2 of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, and, when it finds it necessary, is to review those provisions and take the necessary measures based on the results of that review.