Ahu Whenua Trust Order Template 18082025
The trustees must keep minutes of all trustee meetings in accordance with the requirements of clause 13.4.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)
The trustees must keep minutes of all trustee meetings in accordance with the requirements of clause 13.4.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)
The ad should identify the land and state the purpose of the meeting. The completed application, with the meeting’s minutes and the application fee, should be sent to the MLC.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
More information For more information about Māori Land Trusts please write to, phone, fax, email, or visit a Māori Land Court office.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
The advertisement should identify the land and state the purpose for the meeting. The completed application, with the meeting’s minutes and the application fee, should be sent to the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
Hold a whānau hui Meet with your whānau (in person or online) to discuss: • why you want to form the trust • who the trustees will be • what land interests will be vested 2.
How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-constitute-a-whanau-trust.pdf (512 kb)
Checklist of documents required (if applicable and available) • List of owners present at the gathering • Statement setting out how the alienee is a member of one of the preferred classes of alienees, including any necessary whakapapa details • Roll valuation or special valuation of the land and any improvements to it by a registered valuer • Minutes of the meeting or, if no minutes were kept, a statement of the pertinent issues discussed at the meeting, i...
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-33-Confirmation-of-resolution.pdf (183 kb)
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)
Use this form to apply to the Court for a partition of Māori Land or the combined partition of Māori and General Land to separate out owner’s shares into new land titles.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-39-Application-for-a-partition.pdf (811 kb)
CHECKLIST OF DOCUMENTS REQUIRED (IF APPLICABLE AND AVAILABLE) • Consents of trustees or committee of management where the land is administered by a trust or incorporation • Copy of the minutes of meetings of owners where consent to occupation granted • Copy of owner consents • Sketch plan(s) as required above • Consent of lessee • Written preliminary advice from the local authority that a dwelling will be permitted on the proposed site copy of the minutes of the m...
(state full name), apply to the Court to constitute a whānau trust in respect of: tick as appropriate all my/our land interests the land interests listed in the schedule hereto Details of proposed whānau trust: 1.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-36-Application-to-constitute-a-whanau-trust-202104.pdf (159 kb)