Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SUPERANNUATION BENEFITS) ACT 1989 - SECT 4

                   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.