Are there problems with those titles? Is the concern that the Court registry maintains title records in addition to Land Information New Zealand maintaining the legal title?
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
TAKE NOTICE that Philip Seymour has made application to the Māori Land Court at Te Waipounamu for a meeting of assembled owners seeking a partition of the Otonga 3 block. The block is situated on Rēkohu/Wharekauri/Chatham Islands.
There are shareholdings in that block fractionated down to 4,000ths. The block itself is only about 5 hectares in size.
The application to the Court The application was not contentious, however there were two issues for the Court to determine: (1) The area of land had no LINZ title, nor any current title in the Court’s records.
Land that can be included in a Māori incorporation A Māori incorporation can include one or more blocks of Māori freehold land, so long as at least one of the blocks has more than two owners.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)
Land that can be included in a Māori incorporation A Māori incorporation can include one or more blocks of Māori freehold land, so long as at least one of the blocks has more than two owners.
• Consolidation: Recorded title consolidations undertaken as part of a consolidation scheme initiated by the local Māori Land Boards.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-Minute-Book-Abbreviations.pdf (470 kb)
S Overall, an average Māori land block has a size of 53.06ha and 114 owners. S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,287,810.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)
There are 207 blocks excluded under this category covering an area of 2,787.2953ha.
Documents/Maori-Land-Updates/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
There are 207 blocks excluded under this category covering an area of 2,787.2953ha.
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
