4. An application shall not be receivable unless it is filed within ninety days reckoned from the respective dates and periods referred to in paragraph 2 above, or within ninety days reckoned from the date of the communication of the joint body's opinion containing recommendations unfavourable to the applicant. If the circumstance rendering the application receivable by the Tribunal, pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 above, is anterior to the date of announcement of the first session of the Tribunal, the time limit of ninety days shall begin to run from that date. Nevertheless, the said time limit on his or her behalf shall be extended to one year if the heirs of a deceased staff member or the trustee of a staff member who is not in a position to manage his or her own affairs files the application in the name of the said staff member.
4. 申请必须自上文第2款所称日期及期间起算九十日内提出，或自接获联合申诉机构所提含有不利于申请人的建议的意见之日起算九十日内提出，法庭始可接受。如依上文第2、第3两款规定而使申请可为法庭受理的情形发生于法庭公布首次开庭日期之日以前，九十日的时限应自该日算起。但如申请由亡故工作人员的继承人或由无能力管理其个人事务的工作人员的受托人以该工作人员的名义提出，此一时限应延长至一年。