(2) If the chief executive
grants the exemption, the chief executive may impose restrictions applying to
the exemption.
(3) The chief executive may only grant an interlock exemption
if the chief executive is satisfied—
(a) that one of the following applies
in relation to the applicant’s principal place of residence (the
"applicant’s residence" )—
(i) the shortest reasonable distance, or
shortest reasonable travelling time, using a motor vehicle, between the
applicant’s residence and the nearest place of business of a prescribed
interlock installer (the
"nearest place of business" ) is greater than the distance or time prescribed
under a regulation;
(ii) the applicant’s residence is at a location,
prescribed under a regulation, from which the nearest place of business is not
reasonably accessible using a motor vehicle; or
(iii) the applicant’s
residence is outside both of the following—
(B) an area in which a
prescribed interlock installer provides or operates a mobile service for the
installation of interlocks; or
(b) that, as evidenced by a doctor’s
certificate provided to the chief executive, the applicant has a medical
condition preventing the applicant from providing a sufficient breath sample
to operate an approved interlock; or
(c) of another matter prescribed under a
regulation for this subsection.
(4) If the chief executive does not decide
the application within the prescribed 28-day period, the chief executive is
taken to have made a decision (a
"deemed decision" ) refusing to grant the exemption on the last day of the
period.
(5) Despite subsection (4) , the chief executive may continue to
consider the application and make a considered decision in relation to it.
(7) As soon as practicable
after a deemed decision or considered decision is made, the chief executive
must give the applicant a written notice stating—
(a) the prescribed review
information for the decision; and