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ISSN 2463-3763 (Online)
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DESCRIPTION OF APPLICATION TYPES
BY SECTION
NATIONAL PĀNUI October | Oketopa 2025 2
Summary of General Statutory Provisions
The following table provides a brief description of the most common sections in this document.
S L Dodd
Chief Registrar
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Description of reasons for outstanding
applications
The reasons listed below show the current stage of processing of the application through the court.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of
October 2024 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your
connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
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 (certificateof) title (if any) of any land included in partition
Local Authority approval (where applicable)
Consents of owners
Consents of Trustees (where appl...
ISSN 2463-3763 (Online)
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DESCRIPTION OF APPLICATION TYPES
BY SECTION
NATIONAL PĀNUI November | Noema 2025 2
Summary of General Statutory Provisions
The following table provides a brief description of the most common sections in this document.
Protected Objects Act 1975
The Protected Objects Act 1975 has the power to determine ownership of any taonga tūturu found anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand or within the territorial waters of New Zealand.
s.315-326
Application Checklist For Acceptance
All applications MUST:
Have all relevant sections of the form completed
Be dated
Be signed by the applicant(s) and/or Counsel
Have applicant(s) full contact details:
Contact address;
Phone details: Home:
Mobile:
Email:
Other:
Where applicable have a statement of preferred place of hearing as opposed to
District
Where appropriate and applicable, have proper witnessing
...
SECTION
APPLICANT
SUBJECT
SP3 2:30 PM AP-20240000002969 241/93 Sonia Marie
Viles
Lot 3 Deposited Plan
20573 comprised in
Certificateof Title
WN25A/209 (Being 6
Edinburgh street, Feilding)
- Tumoana Moahuia
Whanau Trust - Partial
termination of trust in
respect of Alan Herbert
Emery, Barbara Gwen
Bell, Brian Steven Emery,
Dennis Bruce Emery,
Diane Hilda Chapman,
Sharene Majella Viles and
Sonia Marie Viles
removing their interests...
The project is reaching out to those Māori lands which
do not have a trust or other management structure to administer their lands.
The primary purpose of both meetings will be to discuss:
• The Mouri Tūroa project and opportunities available for owners of the above blocks;
• Options to enable Mouri Tūroa to complete the proposed work, including but not restricted to:
o A limited powers Ahu Whenua Trust over some or all of the above clusters of blocks...
‘Default’ duties must be performed by the trustee unless they
have been changed or excluded in the terms of the trust (the
trust order). These include the general duty of care, the duty not
to exercise power for the trustee’s own benefit, and the duty to
avoid conflicts of interest.