Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
If you have a current application before the Court, you will need to email your details to MLC.Trustee.Training@justice.govt.nz to ensure you complete the training before your Courthearing.
This brought the Māori LandCourt record into the computer age with details of Māori land blocks and their owners being accessible nationwide, without owners having to travel to the Māori LandCourt where the land was located to get information.
The Act also refers to general land owned by Māori.
Whenua Māori korehere
Māori freehold land
Māori freehold land has gone through the Māori LandCourt (or what was known as the Native LandCourt) to be divided into blocks and converted into freehold titles.
Now, landowners and other court users can choose to resolve
disputes related to Māori land through a free tikanga-based
dispute resolution service provided by the Māori LandCourt.
FEE: $ 228.00
CHECKLIST OF DOCUMENTS REQUIRED:
List of owners, trustees and their addresses
Statement setting out how the alienee is a member of one of the preferred classes of alienees (if applicable),
including any necessary whakapapa details
Roll valuation or special valuation of the land and any improvements to it by a registered valuer (as applicable)
MĀORI LANDCOURT CONTACT DETAILS
Applications should be lodged with the Registrar in the Māori LandCou...
Historically, trust applications were heard by a Māori LandCourt judge.
Now, if your application is assessed to be ‘simple and
uncontested’, then it can be decided by a Māori LandCourt
registrar without a court sitting (unless you request to be
heard by a judge in a court sitting).
Other status types
As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the
following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori LandCourt:
Crown Land
Crown Land Reserved for Māori
General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust)
General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust);
Ownership Only (ownership...
