Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The legislation as drafted is silent on whether an electoral boundaries commission could have access to a list after a general election, for example. It would depend on how quickly or how soon a boundaries commission was established and how valuable that information would be to them.
However, the only condition that is put on the sharing of information from a list -- it is very restrictive under the legislation, what it can be used for -- the information provided on the list is only supposed to be available and used for an electoral event.
There is a provision in the act that allows an elected candidate, if you were a candidate and you were elected at the next Assembly, to receive a copy of the voters list, the final voters list, as the elected Member. That list can be used by an elected Member to contact his or her constituents.
I would probably see that giving this information to a boundaries commission, of which one of its prime purposes is to look at voter patrons, voter turnout, it would be available to get this information.
Also, at the end of each election, the Chief Electoral Officer has to prepare a report that has all of the official results. It gives voter information in that as well. There is an amount of information available that a boundaries commission could have access to.