Mediation Act amendments reclassify statutory conciliation references as mediation and preserve pending conciliation proceedings. Statutory references to conciliation in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 are recharacterised as references to mediation under the Mediation Act, 2023; section 43D omits conciliation language in specified provisions; substituted sections direct that conciliation under this Act and the Code of Civil Procedure be read as mediation per the Mediation Act; a saving provision preserves and continues conciliation proceedings initiated before the Mediation Act's commencement as if that Act had not been enacted.