The time and travel costs associated with attending a court sitting are removed when an application can be decided by a registrar.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Factsheet-Legislative-changes-affecting-trusts.pdf (303 kb)
LEASE OR OCCUPATION LICENSE: Trusts over Māori reservation land may issue a lease or occupation license to enable the land to be occupied or built on for a period of time.
Historically, most succession applications were heard by a Māori Land Court judge. Now, if your succession application is assessed to be ‘simple and uncontested’, then it can be decided by a Māori Land Court registrar without a court sitting (unless you request to be heard by a judge in a court sitting).
Te roa o te tūnga kaitiaki Ka mau tonu te kaitiaki i taua tūnga kia whakahau rā anō te kōti, kua ea te wā ki a ia. Ka āhei anō te kaitiaki ki te rihaina i te wā e hiahia ana a ia, ā, mā te Kooti Whenua Māori rānei a ia e whakamutu mēnā ka rangona 1 He whenua ehara nō Māori, ehara nō te Karauna. 2 Ko te Kuini tonu te rangatira whai mana o Aotearoa hei tā te Karauna.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-tereo.pdf (387 kb)
These are: • when the administration of an estate was granted by the High Court before 1 July 1993, or • when a person died before 1 July 1994 leaving a will dated before 1 July 1993.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
E whai nei: • ko te whakahaere rawa i whakamanahia e te Kooti Teitei i mua i te 1 o Hōngongoi 1993. • i mate rānei he tangata i mua i te 1 o Hōngongoi 1994, ā, ko te wira nō mua kē i te 1 o Hōngongoi 1993.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-tereo.pdf (1.2 mb)
For 1 The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership rights. 2 The division of Māori land into two or more separate titles (partition).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Te tono whakawehe Te huarahi Pānui mō ngā kaitono: 1 Whiringa ki waenga i te kaunihera ā-rohe. Whakawehenga hapū: Tirohia mēnā he kirimana hanga whare ka hiahiatia.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-tereo.pdf (349 kb)
For information about granting confirmation of an instrument of alienation 1 or about transfers of whole blocks of Māori land, please contact a Māori Land Court office (see page 6 for your nearest office). 2 Use of vesting orders Except when Māori land 2 is vested 3 in a Māori incorporation 4, Māori land shares can only be transferred by a vesting order 5 made by the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
A vesting order can be used to transfer Māori land shares: • from one person to another on the sale or gift of the shares • to the trustee(s)6 of the landowners • from a trustee, or representative, to the person beneficially entitled to the shares • to provide a dwelling site for an owner • between owners to facilitate a partition of the land. 1.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.3E-OCT21-Transferring-Maori-Land-Shares.pdf (78 kb)
