• companies are 'related'; or  
  
• employees of one business are used in another business; or  
  
• the business conducted by persons, corporations, partnerships or trusts are commonly controlled.

 A busi​ness is defined to include: ​

• a trade or profession; 
  
• any other activity carried on for fee, gain or reward; 
  
• the activity of employing one or more persons who perform duties in connection with another business; 
  
• the carrying on of a trust (including a dormant trust); and 
  
• the activity of holding any money or property used for, or in conn​​ection with another business, 
  whether carried on by one person or two or more persons together.​
  
  

• who makes the day-to-day management decisions for each business; 
  
• the extent the persons who commonly control each business get involved in the day-to-day operations of the businesses;
• any common customers; 
  
• whether the principal activities of the businesses are complementary or supplementary to each other, including group purchasing or supply arrangements; 
  
• the extent that the business seeking an exclusion, trades with or provides services to any other group member; 
• ​the extent that the businesses share resources; 
  
• the extent of financial dependence between group members including provision of initial or on-going working capital; 
  
• if a group member provides a loan to another member, whether this capital was provided on a strictly commercial basis; for example, the Commissioner would consider such things as formal agreements, commercial interest charged, ​if repayment schedules were adhered to and the extent of security provided for the loan where appropriate.
  

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