4Abscond

4 Abscond

For the purposes of this Act, other than subsection 19(2), a person is to be taken to abscond in connection with an offence if and only if: (a) the person is charged with the offence; and (b) a warrant for the arrest of the person is issued in relation to that information; and (c) one of the following happens: (i) at the end of the period of 6 months starting on the day on which the warrant is issued: (A) the person cannot be found; or (B) the person is, for any other reason, not amenable to justice and, if the person is outside Australia, extradition proceedings are not on foot; (ii) at the end of the period of 6 months starting on the day on which the warrant is issued: (A) the person is not amenable to justice because he or she is outside Australia; and (B) extradition proceedings are on foot; and those proceedings later end without an order for the person’s extradition.