• Document Number：Interpretation No. 23 [2013]
• Area of Law： Civil Law
• Level of Authority： Judicial Interpretation
• Date issued：09-12-2013
• Effective Date：09-22-2013
• Issuing Authority： Supreme People's Court
• Status： Effective

Announcement of the Supreme People's Court
The Official Reply of the Supreme People's Court on the Calculation of the Time Limitation for Filing an Application for Arbitration of Personnel Disputes, as adopted at the 1,590th meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court on September 9, 2013, is hereby issued, and shall come into force on September 22, 2013.
Supreme People's Court
September 12, 2013
Official Reply of the Supreme People's Court on the Calculation of the Time Limitation for Filing an Application for Arbitration of Personnel Disputes
(Interpretation No. 23 [2013], adopted at the 1,590th meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court on September 9, 2013)
Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province:
Your Request for Instructions on the Calculation of the Time Limitation for Arbitration of Personnel Disputes Involving Public Institutions (No. 430 [2012] of the Sichuan Higher People's Court) has been received. After deliberation, the following official reply is hereby provided:
In accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 27 and Article 52 of the Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Law of the People's Republic of China, where a party applies for arbitration within one year from the date when the party knows or should have known the alleged infringement, and the arbitral institution accepts the application, the people's court shall recognize it.