Its 183 kaimahi are spread across seven District Offices and two Information Offices across the motu. They deliver a comprehensive range of services promoting the retention, use of, and development of Māori land as a taonga tuku iho by Māori landowners, their whanau and hapu, and their descendants.
Documents/Articles/Te-Kooti-Whenua-Maori-Purongo-a-tau-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
Transferring Māori Land Shares is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori – and anyone else with an interest – to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to transferring Māori land shares by a vesting order: • when the ownership of a Māori land block is held in shares by a group of owners • when a land block is vested in a Māori incorporation.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Transferring Māori Land Shares is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori – and anyone else with an interest – to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to transferring Māori land shares by a vesting order: • when the ownership of a Māori land block is held in shares by a group of owners • when a land block is vested in a Māori incorporation.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english-v2.pdf (333 kb)
Transferring Māori Land Shares is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori – and anyone else with an interest – to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to transferring Māori land shares by a vesting order: • when the ownership of a Māori land block is held in shares by a group of owners • when a land block is vested in a Māori incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Deputy Registrar Caroline Green (as she then was) conducted a lengthy and comprehensive process tracing the succession to the current owners of the land.
...earlier that tikanga Māori cannot be reduced to writing and thereby set in concrete by legislation, I have set out below a number of tikanga that most tohunga (Māori experts in matters Māori) would agree exist and should be applied. The list is not comprehensive, nor should they be considered as such, as there are nuances and variations dependant on rohe (the region) and tribal custom.
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)
Māori Reservations is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori – and anyone else with an interest – to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to Māori reservations and the regulations governing them, designed to inform and assist people who want to establish a reservation, trustees of reservations, and people who want to use reservations for events or activities.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
Apply online Download the application form Supporting document: Order Template and Checklist - Comprehensive Whānau Trust Tarati kaitiaki (utu tāpae $23) Kaitiaki trust (filing fee $23) A kaitiaki trust is established to hold land interests for a person who: is a minor (under the age of 20) is serving time in prison, or is unable to manage their own affairs due to age or mental/physical disability.
Succession is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori—and anyone else with an interest—to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to the process and regulations relating to the transfer of the Māori land interests of a deceased owner to his or her successors. 2 Definition of succession Māori land is owned by either one owner or several owners.
Succession is one of a series of Māori Land Court booklets designed to help Māori—and anyone else with an interest—to gain a fuller understanding of current Māori land matters. It is a comprehensive guide to the process and regulations relating to the transfer of the Māori land interests of a deceased owner to his or her successors. 2 Definition of succession Māori land is owned by either one owner or several owners.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
