MLC 2023 Glossary of terms
DEVISE AND DEVISEE A gift of land made in a will. The person to whom the gift is left is a devisee.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
Search results for "Gift land"
Panui April 2023
Special fixtures are arranged and advertised in accordance with the provisions of the Mäori Land Court Rules and they may not necessarily be listed in this publication.
He uiuinga whānui mā ngā kaiwhakamahi o Te Kooti Whenua Māori 2025
Māori Land Court User Survey 2025
30 Jun 2025
|
News
The survey will close at midnight on Sunday 20 July 2025 . To access the Māori Land Court User Survey, please click the following link: Māori Land Court User Survey 2025 If you have any questions, please contact us by email at te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz
MLC Form 26 Exemption
Fee: $ 23.00 MĀORI LAND COURT CONTACT DETAILS This application should be lodged with the Registrar in the District in which the land is located Office use: Application: ACCEPTED / REFUSED Dated: ..............................................................
Discussion on leases and licenses over Māori Reservation land
01 Apr 2012 | NewsThat provides a great deal of protection because the land cannot be sold or gifted away. Nor can the land be taken by way of an agreement under the Public Works Act 1981.
MLC 150 years of the Maori Land Court
In his classic book Māori Land Tenure (1977) Sir Hugh Kawharu wrote that the system of Māori land tenure created by the Native Lands Act of 1865 was an ‘engine of destruction for any tribe’s tenure of land, anywhere’ (p 15).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Ngā puka tono
Application forms
You can download and edit these PDF forms for the Māori Land Court and the Māori Appellate Court applications and email or mail them to us.
MLC Form 35 Exchange order
Use this form when exchanging some or all of your interests in Māori Land by sale or gift with some or all of the Māori Land interests of a different owner in a different block of Māori Land.
Te wehe i ō whenua
Divide your land
Wāwāhanga ā-hapū (utu tāpae $228) Hapū partition (filing fee $228) A hapū partition divides the whenua and distributes the new land blocks among the existing owners. This also means the land can’t be gifted or sold outside of the existing owners.
2023 08 31 Notification of Applications Over 6 months old in MLC MAC
The Māori Land Court moved to a new database, Pātaka Whenua, in late May 2023 replacing the Māori Land Information System.