2025 02 28 Notification of Applications Over 6 months old in MLC MAC
Application is being checked for completeness prior to court staff carrying out research and preparing for the court to make a determination.
Search results for "How to determinate a whanau trust"
2023.10.17 MLC Special Aid Practice Note FINAL
The fact that a party to proceedings before the Māori Land Court is in receipt of Special Aid is not a barrier to costs being awarded against them. 26.
Documents/Practice-notes/2023.10.17-MLC-Special-Aid-Practice-Note-FINAL.pdf (367 kb)
Amendments to Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 December 2020
Before 6 February 2021 A beneficiary of a whānau trust is not able to apply for an occupation order to use trust land for housing purposes.
Ngā tohutohu hei rapu i te pūkete kōti i Pātaka Whenua
Guidance to search the court record in Pātaka Whenua
Read the Search for a block guide for help on how to search by land block.
2025 08 31 Notification of Applications Over 6 months old in MLC MAC
Application is being checked for completeness prior to court staff carrying out research and preparing for the court to make a determination.
5 11 Report Published 2025 05 May
Prepare for court hearing AP-20230000019703 A20190007011 7/08/2019 Tamati and Margaret Makara Whanau Trust - and orders constituting a whanau trust made at 99 Whangarei MB 34-36 (23/02/2004) - Application to the Chief Judge 44(1)/93 47(4)/93 Tainui Noble 5.
Documents/5-11-reports/5-11-Report-Published-2025-05-May.pdf (4 mb)
Banking Practice Note
Whenua Māori held by a Māori land trust 3. Where the title to the land is vested in a Māori land trust (e.g. an Ahu Whenua Trust or a Whānau Trust) the trustees can approve a mortgage against the land subject to any restrictions in the trust order (ss 147 and 150A of the Act)
Discussion on residential utilisation of multiply owned Māori land
01 Jun 2012 | NewsThis model for the utilisation of multiply-owned Māori land had its origins in Taitokerau in 1989 where, under s 438 of the Māori Affairs Act 1953, a block was vested in a trust with exclusive use areas identified in a schedule to the trust order for whānau shareholding groups.
MLC Form 36 Application to constitute a whanau trust 202104
Use this form to create a Whānau Trust by vesting some or all of your interests in trustees to hold on behalf of the descendants of a given person or tupuna (the beneficiaries) If you are creating a Whānau Trust as part of a succession application please complete form 23.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-36-Application-to-constitute-a-whanau-trust-202104.pdf (110 kb)
MOJ0217.1E Maori Land Trusts May19 v2 WEB
• Whānau trust This is a whānau-oriented trust. It allows the whānau to bring together their Māori land interests for the benefit of the whānau and their descendants.
Uploads/MOJ0217.1E-Maori-Land-Trusts-May19-v2-WEB.pdf (166 kb)