If an owner with Māori Land interests is deceased, and a succession has not previously been dealt with by the Court or a Registrar, you can use this form to seek a determination from the Court as to those persons entitled to a deceased’s Māori Land interests and an order transferring the interests to those entitled.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-22-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (512 kb)
The modern Māori Land Court exists in an environment that is significantly different to that in which was created on 30 October 1865 by the General Assembly of the New Zealand Colony under the Native Lands Act 1865.
Any owner or interested person may use this form to apply to the Court to call or direct the Registrar to call a meeting of assembled owners for any Māori Freehold land or General Land owned by Māori to consider 1 or more resolutions for those matters set out in section 172 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (attached as a schedule to this form) Office use: Application: ACCEPTED / REFUSED Dated: ....................................................
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-32-Application-to-call-meeting.pdf (178 kb)
You can find information about your whenua and other Māori land from a variety of sources.
Paneke means to ‘pass by’ or ‘pass through’ and it is the term used to refer to Māori Land Court services away from the district offices.
No record of these conversations will be publicly available on the Māori Land Court record. If an agreement is reached through mediation, the mediator will record the terms of the agreement and provide this to the Māori Land Court.
Access to Māori land was generally considered when the title of the land was originally issued and in many cases: a roadway would have been created to give access to the land there may have already been a public or private roadway servicing the land, or a right of way to access land, across a neighbouring property, may have been put in place.
Tairāwhiti PĀNUI He pānuitanga tēnei kia mohiotia ai ka tu Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Hearing Courtroom 3 Hastings District Court 106 Eastbourne Street West Hastings Monday, 20 November 2023 Judge M J Doogan presiding PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT: Sp2 10:00am AP-20230000026803 18(1)(a)/93 Tim Smith Francis Guthrie Smith -...
Tairāwhiti PĀNUI He pānuitanga tēnei kia mohiotia ai ka tu Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Hearing Courtroom 4 Hastings District Court 106 Eastbourne Street West Hastings Friday, 8 December 2023 Judge M J Doogan presiding PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT: Sp2 10:00am AP-20230000026803 18(1)(a)/93 Tim Smith Francis Guthrie Smith - determine a claim to right...
Tairāwhiti PĀNUI He pānuitanga tēnei kia mohiotia ai ka tu Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Hearing Courtroom 4 Hastings District Court 106 Eastbourne Street West Hastings Thursday, 7 December 2023 Judge M J Doogan presiding PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT: Sp2 10:00am AP-20230000026803 18(1)(a)/93 Tim Smith Francis Guthrie Smith - determine a claim to rig...
