Call Government House or Government Information Services if you want a hard copy of the Boundaries Commission report on electoral reform but be prepared to shell out some cash.

Since its tabling last week, concerns have been raised about public access to the report.

Acting Governor Tim Gurney said yesterday that there may be a reprint, should there be a "clear demand" from the general public for a hard copy of the report, but added that a charge may be levied.

The report which was tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday, was printed in full in Monday's Royal Gazette at the request of Government House and is also on the newspaper's website www.theroyalgazette.com.

The Island's two main political parties have encouraged people to read and digest the document which, if adopted, would transform Bermuda's electoral map.

A House of Assembly debate on the report is scheduled to take place October 11, following which the Governor will send a record of the debate and the report itself to the Foreign Secretary.

Britain will then make a decision as to the next steps before the Constitution is changed to reform the system.

At an open meeting on Monday, some people complained that the Government Information Services (GIS) would not give them a copy and said they had no plans to print any.

Questions were also raised about whether this newspaper had an accurate version of the report and some said afterward that a whole page in their copy was faded and hardly legible.

In fact six words from the preamble were lost to a page turn and due to space constraints in Monday's edition, the map of the Southampton West constituency was printed in Tuesday's paper.

Two appendixes, listing the names of people and organisations who had made oral and written submissions to the Commission, were left out.

"The Premier says that The Royal Gazette is always to be distrusted. I'm surprised we have to pay 75 cents to get a copy of a report that taxpayers have funded," said an unidentified person at Monday's meeting.

Acting Governor Tim Gurney said 200 copies were printed initially - 85 went to the House of Assembly, 100 to Government Information Services (GIS), a stack went off to London and the rest are at Government House.

"We have discussed having a reprint and are happy to consider it provided that there is a clear demand for hard copies but we may have to look at charging for it" because of the costs involved, Mr. Gurney said.

"If there was real demand for a hard copy we are certainly open to meet that demand."

He pointed out that The Royal Gazette had "very kindly" put it on its website and GIS are working to get it on the Government website as well.

"There are no immediate plans to print more," said a GIS spokesperson.

She said members of the public have been told that the report is available in this newspaper and on the website but that a number of officials of the various political parties have been given copies.

"People (party officials) came in for it immediately and we made it available to them."