Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to abscond in connection with an offence if and only if:
(a) an information is laid alleging the person committed the offence; and
(b) a warrant for the person's arrest is issued in relation to that information; and
(c) subsection (2) applies to the person and the warrant.
(2) This subsection applies to a person and a warrant if either of the following occurs:
(a) at the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which the warrant is issued:
(i) the person cannot be found; or
(ii) the person is, for any other reason, not amenable to justice and, if the person is outside * Australia, extradition proceedings are not on foot;
(b) at the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which the warrant is issued:
(i) the person is, because he or she is outside Australia, not amenable to justice; and
(ii) extradition proceedings are on foot;
and subsequently those proceedings terminate without an order for the person's extradition being made.
(3) Extradition proceedings taking place in a jurisdiction in relation to a person are not taken, for the purposes of subsection (2), to be on foot unless the person is in custody, or is on bail, in that jurisdiction.