MOJ0217.1E Maori Land Trusts May19 v2 WEB
Custodian trustees are not responsible for administering the trust – the responsible trustees are.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-Maori-Land-Trusts-May19-v2-WEB.pdf (166 kb)
Custodian trustees are not responsible for administering the trust – the responsible trustees are.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-Maori-Land-Trusts-May19-v2-WEB.pdf (166 kb)
Apply online Download the application form Download the trustee consent form Te whakawātea i tētahi kaitiaki (utu tāpae $66) Remove a trustee (filing fee $66) Trustees can be removed for a variety of reasons.
Use this form to indicate that you consent to be appointed as a trustee for any trust involving the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Document-B1-Consent-trustee.pdf (202 kb)
Appointment of trustees records are similar in nature to the Protection of Personal and Property Rights (PPPR) case files generated in the Family Court and recommended for retention as archives in DA564.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
Hui-a-owners Hui-a-beneficiaries The Māori Land Court has directed that a hui-a- owners take place for the sole purpose of an Election of Trustees, for each of the following Māori Reservations: Whakapoungakau No 7A Whakapoungakau 7B2 Whakapoungakau 7C Whakapoungakau 7F Whakapoungakau 7G There will be five separate hui to elect trustees to each of the respective blocks.
Documents/Landowner-notices/Final-advert-Whakapoungakau-hui-final.pdf (115 kb)
Reporting requirements for trustees. Nomination, election and consent of trustees.
Where one or more of the trustees are unable or refuse to sign the mortgage documents, the remaining trustees can apply to the Court: (a) To seek directions; (b) To remove any trustees who have passed away or resigned; (c) To remove a trustee for cause for refusing to implement the majority decision; or (d) To approve the mortgage documents being signed by a majority of trustees only per s 227(3) and 237 of the Act. 7.
For example, for an application for succession, you’ll need a death certificate, any grant of administration (grant of probate2 or letters of administration3) or the original will, minutes of a whānau meeting if a whānau trust is required, and consents of the proposed trustees.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)
The order will then be written up in the Court title records if it affects land, and will be sent to any party who has to act on it, for example the Māori trustee if the Māori trustee has been ordered to pay money he/she is holding, or a Māori incorporation if the order affects shares in that incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
Apply online Download the application form Aggregations Unlike other forms of title improvement, an aggregation doesn't change the title to the land.