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AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 42A Abscond

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 42A

Abscond

    For the purposes of this Part, other than subsection   46(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.