Terrorism (Community Protection) Act 2003

For the purposes of this Part, a thing that is a cause of a person undergoing the process described in section 22AG(1) is an underlying cause of that person radicalising towards violent extremism.

Without limiting subsection (1), in a person's particular circumstances, any of the following things may be an underlying cause of the person radicalising towards violent extremism—

unemployment;

the use of drugs or alcohol;

mental illness (within the meaning of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022);

homelessness;

social isolation.

Nothing in subsection (2) means that a thing listed in one of that subsection's paragraphs will be or must be, in every case, an underlying cause of a particular person radicalising towards violent extremism.