Why and how the Rules are changing
The Rules set out how the Court operates – including what the Court and Registrar s must do, and what applicants and other parties need to do when filing applications and documents.
An occupation order can pass by succession.
Legislative changes supporting
housing initiatives
Effective from Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021
Why make this change?
These applications cannot be filed online.
Applications under section 99 must use the General Form of
Application (Form 1) stating the Act and the section under which
application is made.
These applications
cannot be filed online.
• Applications under section 69A must use the General
Form of Application (Form 1) stating the Act and the
section under which application is made.
To apply to change the terms of your trust, you’ll need to include:
a list of proposed changes
evidence of any meetings called to consider the proposed changes, and
evidence to show sufficient support for the proposed changes.
For any such appeal or rehearing:
(a) Where a lawyer has been appointed on application by a party, a new application
must be filed in advance of any appeal or rehearing.
Proceedings on foot or not
As noted above, one of the benefits of the proposed mediation process is that mediation is
not only available where there are proceedings on foot, but also where there are no formal
proceedings or applications before the Court. A simple application by the Registrar and the
consent of the parties to the dispute is all that is required.
Alongside these changes, we face an increase in applications, COVID-19 impacts, and higher-than-normal staff turnover, which has slowed down our response times to enquiries and the processing of your applications.
