Government House is actively considering whether and how to make the Boundaries Commission report widely available to the public.

The Commission, which has been charged with recommending the number and boundaries of new voting districts under a revamped single seat electoral system, is expected to resume deliberations next week.

Commission chairman Sir Frank Blackman and judicial member Sir Brian Smedley are due back on the Island by the end of the week.

By law the report has to be debated in the House of Assembly and sent, together with a report of that debate, to Whitehall before an Order is made to change the boundaries.

The British Government has said that a constitutional conference has not been ruled out.

With the Boundaries Commission expected to complete its work well before the end of the summer recess in November, Parliament may have to be recalled for the report to be tabled.

It is standard parliamentary procedure for such reports to be tabled in the House of Assembly before being distributed to the wider public.

"The public has an interest in seeing it and rightfully so," said Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly Walter Lister. "We should table it before it is made public - in the shortest period of time."

But he added that it was up to the House Speaker Stanley Lowe to make the decision to recall parliament.

Mr. Lowe could not be reached by press-time yesterday.

Asked what the plans were to make the report public, Deputy Governor Tim Gurney said: "That is being actively considered at the moment."