Usually, an application for a trustee’s
removal is filed by the trustees or the
beneficiaries. In terms of Regulation 3(h),
any trustee removed by the Court should
not later be reappointed as a trustee for the
same reservation (removal by Court is a
disciplinary matter).
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. As part of changes , it was recognised that amendments were needed to update and modernise them, specifically to provide for matters arising from new jurisdic...
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The purpose of the National Pänui / Te Pänui ä Motu is
to provide notice to interested parties of hearings being
conducted in, and applications received by, the Mäori Land
Court.
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The purpose of the National Pänui / Te Pänui ä Motu is
to provide notice to interested parties of hearings being
conducted in, and applications received by, the Mäori Land
Court.
• Track progress of your applications.
• Pay filing fees.
• Submit enquiries.
• Receive notifications on your applications and enquiries from the court
If the trustees do not convene a special meeting for this purpose within 2 months of receiving
the written notice, the aggrieved person may file in court an application under section 238 of
the Act asking the court to:
(a) review the trustees’ response or failure to respond to the aggrieved person’s notice;
(b) give directions to the trustees; and/or
(c) put in place an injunction to prevent the trustees from taking any further steps in relation
to the subject of the grievance...
Any person appearing in the Māori Land Court, or in any court in New Zealand, can speak or file written documents in te reo Māori as a right under the Māori Language Act 2016.
The matters that maybe dealt with by an Assembled Owners Meeting are set out in the schedule at the end of
of this form
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee and be filed with
the Registrar in the District in which the land is
located;
(ii) Please ensure that all information required
on the form is completed;
(iii) Where tick boxes are provided please
ensure you tick all those boxes that apply t...
Contact Phone Number(s):
Home: Work:
Mobile:
Email Address:
NOTE:
(1) Where email addresses are given these may be used as a means of notice and service; and
(2) As well as filing this notice in the Court, you must also send a copy to the applicant.
That written notice must be filed in the Māori Land Court not later than [date]
and should include the grounds on which the member supports or opposes the application.