New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONFISCATION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1989 - SECT 6

6 Meaning of "absconding"

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be taken to have absconded if and only if--

(a) a court attendance notice or information has been filed or laid alleging the commission of a serious offence by the person, and

(b) a warrant for the arrest of the person has been issued in relation to that information or notice, and

(c) reasonable attempts to locate the person pursuant to the warrant have been unsuccessful during the period of 6 months commencing on the day the warrant was issued,

and the person shall be taken to have so absconded on the last day of that period of 6 months.

(2) A reference in this Act, in relation to the conviction of a person for a serious offence, to the commission of the offence shall, where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence because of section 5 (1) (d), be read as a reference to the alleged commission of the offence by the person.