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Applying for succession
Succession application types
Succession and whāngai
Succession with no living descendants
Succession with a living husband, wife, or partner Māori freehold land can be owned by one owner or several owners and in some cases, there might be hundreds of owners in one block or title of land.
I whai ēnei panonitanga ki te:
ӹ Iwhakatikahia te whai wāhi atu ki Land and
Owner Information Services, mā roto mai i te
tuku i ngā huarahi maha, wai hoki, e māmā ana
ӹ whakatikahia te whai wāhi atu ki te Matatika,
mā roto mai i te whakatū i tētahi ratonga ki te
whakatau take
ӹ whakapūmau tonu ki te ngākau tapatahi o Te
Kooti Whenua Māori, mā roto mai i te tuku i
ngā hātepe e tōtika ana, i tētahi hangarau hou
anō hoki.
External link
Māori Assembled Owners Regulations 1995
Sets out the rules on how a meeting of owners of Māori land must be held, how it is recorded and how the outcomes are reported.
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee (if any) and may be
filed at any office of the Court
(ii) Please ensure that all information required on the
form is completed;
(iii) Where tick boxes are provided please
ensure you tick all those boxes that apply to your
application, unless you are required to select one
box, then only select the box that applies;
(iv) You must supply a list of Respondents and/or
affecte...
Ngā puka taupānga me te puka Tarahiti
Succession and Trust application forms
Form 20: Certificate by administrator
Rule 10.2(3), Sections 111 or 113
(PDF 263 kb)
Form 21: Succession (grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(2)(a), Sections 113 and 117
(PDF 370 kb)
Form 22: Succession (no grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(1),(2), Sections 113 and 118
(PDF 371 kb)
Form 23: Application for whānau trust (with succession)
Rule 12.3, Section 214
(PDF 14...
This data provides a high-level summary to share with owners,
organisations, and government agencies key characteristics of Māori Customary and Māori Freehold Land.
Trustee responsibilities can include:
researching options for the whenua on behalf of owners
attending regular trustee meetings to discuss and debate plans for the trust
communicating with owners and organising hui for owners or trustees to discuss plans for the whenua
visiting the whenua regularly to check on the wellbeing of the land, and
working with people involved in the whenua or trust, such as a lessee, accountant, or management team.
General powers of Trustees
1.3 The Trustees have the following general powers:
(a) all the powers necessary to manage the Trust Property including, in relation to
the Trust Property, all the powers of an absolute owner of the property; and
(b) all the powers necessary to carry out the terms of the Trust, including powers
incidental to those in paragraph (a).
