In this Part, except where the context otherwise requires—

• “claim form” includes in Northern Ireland, the originating process by which proceedings are commenced;

• “contract”, except in regulation 64, means a contract or a framework agreement;

• “declaration of ineffectiveness” means a declaration made under regulation 59(2)(a) or 64(3);

• “grounds for ineffectiveness” has the meaning given to it by regulation 60;

• “proceedings” means court proceedings taken for the purposes of regulation 52; and

• “standstill period”, and references to its end, have the same meaning as in regulation 34.

In this Part F1... any reference to a period of time, however expressed, is to be interpreted subject to the requirement that, if the period would otherwise have ended on a day which is not a working day, the period is to end at the end of the next working day.