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).
Me āta whakamārama te pānui i te whenua, ngā rōpū kaiwhiwhi hua, ngā take ka kōrerohia me ngā whakaritenga mō te hui. Me puta te pānui hui ā-tau e 21 rā i mua o te hui, ā, 14 rā mō ētahi atu hui.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-tereo.pdf (387 kb)
Where there was no will, the surviving spouse was usually entitled to receive non-Māori land assets, including Māori incorporation shares. 21 Person(s) who benefit from a trust or estate. 22 One who makes a will. 23 A person appointed to carry out certain duties under the last will of a deceased person.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
Whāngai Ka uru mai ngā whāngai 21 ki raro i ngā ture mana tuku, ā, mā te kooti e whakatau te rahi o ngā hea ka whakawhiwhia.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-tereo.pdf (1.2 mb)
Generally, the applicant should write to as many landowners as possible, inviting them to attend a meeting to consider the proposal, at least 21 days before the meeting.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Ko ēnei momo whenua ka tangohia mai i ngā whenua e hokona nei. Wehenga ā-rōpū Ka whai hua he kaipupuri, he rōpū kaipupuri whenua rānei mēnā ka honoa ā rātou rawa, mēnā e rua ngā poraka whenua ka whakakotahitia hei poraka kotahi, arā mēnā nō rātou a poraka a, ā, ka whai pānga anō rātou ki roto i te poraka B.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-tereo.pdf (349 kb)
Ahu whenua and whenua tōpū trusts are land management trusts and generally involve whole blocks of land. • Kaitiaki trust A kaitiaki trust relates solely to an individual who is a minor or has a disability and is unable to manage his or her affairs.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-Maori-Land-Trusts-May19-v2-WEB.pdf (166 kb)
(b) Failure by the Occupier to comply with clauses 4(a), 5(a), and 9 constitutes a material breach of these terms.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/2021-03-12-Example-Occupation-Order.pdf (150 kb)
