The Boundaries Commission's report on new electoral arrangements has been completed and will be presented to the Acting Governor today.

The House of Assembly is expected to be recalled for the tabling of the report before it can be publicised and its contents debated.

Commission chairman Sir Frank Blackman said work will be completed “very shortly... probably this week”.

He added that arrangements would now have to be made for Parliamentary debate.

“My personal view is that there should be opportunity for good and proper debate to take place. I do believe that will take place.”

According to a Government release, Acting Governor Tim Gurney will thank the Commission for its work at Government House today.

“It is the intention of the Acting Governor to send a copy of the report to the House of Assembly. Details of the public release of the document will be issued in due course,” it said.

Last summer the Commission was empowered by an Order in Council to recommend the number of single seat constituencies (between 20 and 40) and their boundaries. The Order also specified that the Commission's report be debated in the House and a record of the debate, together with the report, be sent to the Foreign Secretary in the UK.

The UK Government will then make the decision on the next step, if any, before making another order changing the system. And it has said that a Constitutional conference is not ruled out.

It is standard procedure for such documents to be formally tabled in the House of Assembly before being made available to the wider public. Parliament formally resumes sitting in November and House Speaker Stanley Lowe would not comment when asked whether the House was about to be recalled.