(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.