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f)
g)
h)
a) This form must be filed at the office of the Court at
Christchurch;
b) Please ensure that all information required on the form
is completed;
c) Where possible, please supply the names and contact
details of the successors that are listed in this form;
d) Due to the nature of these applications, and in terms of
the Court’s inquiry under section 29 of Te Ture Whenua
Māori Act 1993 and in recognition of the provisions of
Part 15 ...
(ii) Will - the original or a copy certified as a true copy by a solicitor or Trustee Company must be supplied where
the Grant of Administration does not contain a copy.
(iii) Next of Kin – where there is no will, or the will is unclear or leaves interests to anyone other than the preferred class of
alienee (who are the family of the deceased) then the next of kin for the purposes of succession are children of the
deceased; if there are no childr...
Of the districts,
Waiariki received the largest share of new applica-
tions, with a total of 1,427 or 27 per cent of all new
applications received nationally.
(k) Landowner(s): [insert the names of the owners of the Parent Block or
the name of the existing management structure (in the case of a trust, name the
current trustees, followed by “as trustees of the [name of trust]”)]
(l) Maximum Occupants: [Twelve (12)] people.
Details as to how ownership of the land is to be apportioned after partition
Details of notice of the application or proposal to the owners, the minutes of any meetings
held for this purpose, and the amount of support for the proposal
Copy of the current (certificate of) title (if any) of any land included in partition
Local Authority approval (where applicable)
Consents of owners
Consents of Trustees (where applicable)...
An elected trustee formally
becomes a responsible trustee when the Court has granted
an order of appointment.
General functions of a trustee
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act requires that every person who is
appointed as a responsible trustee must carry out the:
• terms of the trust
• proper administration and management of the business of
the trust
• preservation of the assets of the trust
• collection and distribution of the income of...
Where a copy is produced the Court may still
require production of the original.
(iii) Next of Kin – where there is no will the next of kin for the purposes of succession are children of the deceased; if there are no children then brothers and
sisters; if neither of these then next of kin are the nearest relatives on the side of the family from whom the land originated.
Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
