Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034:section:334
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 334
Character Range: 538317–539623

334  Meaning of abscond
 (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.

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