business practice
includes--
| a) | any agreement, accord, arrangement, understanding or undertaking, whether legally enforceable or not, between two or more persons; |
| b) | any scheme, practice or method of trading, including any method of marketing or distribution; |
| c) | any advertising, type of advertising or any other manner of soliciting business; |
| d) | any act or omission on the part of any person, whether acting independently or in concert with any other person; |
| e) | any situation arising out of the activities of any person or class or group of persons, |
but does not include a practice regulated by competition law.