本文以《中华人民共和国行政许可法》和《中华人民共和国行政处罚法》为研究对象,对有关行政时效的规定进行总结。随后以行政过程论中关于效率和公正价值取向的平衡理论为标准,对行政时效制度的价值进行分析,时效的规定有助于实现效率和公正。最后探讨了当前我国行政许可和行政处罚领域时效规定的优点与不足,针对目前规定数量偏少、完善性有待提升、缺乏对违反时效的法律后果的规定三个问题提出了改进方案和展望。 In this paper, “People’s Republic of China Administrative Licensing Law” and “Administrative Punishment Law of the People’s Republic of China” as the research object, to summarize the provisions on administrative limitation. Then the article analyzes the value of the administrative prescription system based on the balance theory of efficiency and fair value orientation in the administrative process theory. The prescription of timeliness helps to realize the efficiency and fairness. At last, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the current limitation of administrative licensing and administrative penalty in our country, and puts forward the improvement plan and prospect for the three problems that the present regulation is less in quantity, the perfection is to be improved and the legal consequence of the violation of limitation is lacking.