Whenua Māori held by a Māori land trust
3. Where the title to the land is vested in a Māori land trust (e.g. an Ahu Whenua Trust or a
Whānau Trust) the trustees can approve a mortgage against the land subject to any
restrictions in the trust order (ss 147 and 150A of the Act)
Signature(s) of applicant(s):
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...February 2026
TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief
Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 10th of December 2025, are hereby
notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being
outstanding and have yet to be determined or set down for inquiry or report under section 46 of Te
Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.
This produced some pleasing results
in both spaces with an increase in new applications to Court in the earlier part of the reporting
year and the closure of some of our older applications.
Figure [3] – Throughput for the Māori Appeallate Court as at 31 May 2023
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Waikato - Maniapoto
Waiariki
Te Waipounamu
Tākitimu
Taitokerau
Tairāwhiti
Te Whakamaene
Pre-Application Pre-Court At Court Post Court Orders...
A judge should be mindful of the burden for other judges if the judge recuses him
or herself unnecessarily.
3. A judge is not required to recuse him or herself merely because the issues
involved in a case are in some indirect way related to the judge’s personal
experience or that the judge has previously dealt with the case.
4.
If an applicant is forming a trust for
his or her children, his or her name should be the tupuna name.
3. Section 218 of Te Ture Whēnua Māori Act 1993 contains a list of Māori community purposes to which income
from the whānau trust may be applied if provision is made in the trust order.