Select the statement that applies. I/We* have made reasonable inquiries as to a will, but have been unable to find a will and believe the deceased left no will.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-22-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (826 kb)
To my mother and father, today is also the result of your desire to ensure our upbringing had Māori foundations, of your desire to ensure that we always knew we had control over our own destiny and what we want to achieve.
While a number of the sessions were not directly relevant to our work in the Māori Land Court, all sessions were interesting and had aspects which made you think about the work we do and how we do our work.
This term covers land that, in broad terms, is not Māori land and is not Crown land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
• What do the owners think overall? • How will the proposal affect the owners’ interests and the best use of the land?
How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-apply-for-Partition-of-Maori-freehold-land.pdf (490 kb)
We showed ourselves flexible, adopt- ing our new way of working with confidence and embracing our new tool to serve Māori land- owners.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)
How did you mostly engage with the Māori Land Court?
Documents/Misc/MLC-User-Survey-2025-Infographic-V5-Te-Reo-Headings.pdf (372 kb)
They will also be able to vote on whether they want to receive the land back as Māori or General land, and how that land will be held.
The development of this retention and disposal report provides the Māori Land Court a framework under which our records can be categorised and indexed across our registry offices and provides the required authority (from the Chief Archivist) on which records we will retain, which are of historical value and which are not, on what basis we will transfer records to the Chief Archivist and what we will do with records when they are no longer req...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
If one person dies, the other tenants in common have no automatic rights of succession to the interest that the deceased owner had. Māori land is deemed to be held ‘in common’ unless otherwise determined by the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
