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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.
It is a comprehensive guide to the process
and regulations relating to the transfer of the
Māori land interests of a deceased owner to
his or her successors.
2
Definition of succession
Māori land is owned by either one owner
or several owners.
• Ngā whiwhinga wātea a te Māori kei roto
i ngā whenua whānui 7 (engari me tono
mai anō tētahi māngai 8 tūturu kua tohua i
raro i te mana o te Kooti Teitei)
Seek a cost estimate for a valuation of
and report on the proposed partition and
the balance of the block.
7 Determine the feasibility of the proposal.
Whakawehenga tūturu: Tirohia mēnā
kei te hāngai tō tono ki ngā ture
manaaki rauemi anō, mēnā ka whiwhi
whakaaetanga koe ki te hanga whare.
2 Whakaritea he hui ki ngā kaipupuri.
Me whakatū he hui i waenga i ngā kaipupuri
kia kite ai rātou i te tono, ā, kia riro mai tā
7 Mā te takahuri i te mana pupuri whenua,
ka riro i te kaiwhiwihi te mana whenua me
ngā tikanga katoa o taua whenua (ka āhei te
tuku i te whenua ki te kaitiaki, ki tētahi atu
tangata rānei).
8 Ko...
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).
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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.
Section 164 of the Act applies.
7. The traditional Māori tribal hierarchy and social order made up of hapū (kin
groups) and whānau (family groups), having a founding ancestor and territorial
(tribal) boundaries.
8.