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)
You do not need to file separate applications for each district. 1 The official record of legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership rights. 2 A person who receives, as of right, a share of a deceased person’s estate. 3 Someone who is given authority by the High Court to manage and administer the estate of a deceased person.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
Kei ngā tari katoa o te Kooti Whenua Māori ngā pepa tono. 1 Te rangatiratanga, te mana pupuri whenua tūturu me ngā pepa e whakaatu ana i taua mana i raro i te ture. 2 He tangata e tika ana i raro i te ture kia whiwhi ki ngā hea o te tangata kua mate. 3 He tangata kua tohua, kua whai mana mai i te Kooti Teitei ki te whakahaere me te tohatoha i ngā rawa a te tangata kua mate, ina tohua e te Kooti Teitei he kaitohatoha, ka tukua e te kooti he momo reta kaiw...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-tereo.pdf (1.2 mb)
Footnotes 3 4 instance, they may own block a and also have an interest in block B.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Me whai whakaaetanga ā-tuhi mai i ērā kāre e tae mai ki te hui. Me āta pānui te hui me ana pūtake. 3 Kōrero ki ngā kairīhi, mēnā he kairīhi.
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)
See Part 12 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993. 2. 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. 3.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)
In terms of Regulation 3(h), any trustee removed by the MLC should not later be reappointed as a trustee for the same reservation (removal by the Court is a disciplinary matter).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
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/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
