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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.

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Charging orders – water services charges In certain situations, Māori landowners may have to pay for water services. If an owner of Māori freehold land in multiple ownership has paid more than their share of water services changes, they can apply to the Māori Land Court for a “charging order” to recover the excess amount paid.

Located in:  Hui and court hearings News

Any member of the preferred classes of alienees who wishes to be considered by the owners as a prospective purchaser of the land must give written notice of their intention to pursue a right of first refusal at the hearing of the application.

Documents/Landowner-notices/1-v3.-Aotea-Notice-to-PCA.pdf (58 kb)

Setting up an incorporation Previously, landowners seeking to form an incorporation need to show that owners with not less than 15 percent of shares in the Māori land consented to the proposal.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Factsheet-Legislative-changes-affecting-incorporations-web-version.pdf (63 kb)

Since the passing of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, our role is to: promote the retention of Māori land in the hands of its owners, whānau and hapū facilitate the occupation, development and use of Māori land ensure that decisions made about Māori land are fair and balanced taking into account the needs of all the owners and their beneficiaries.

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In the past the Housing Corporation, and its replacement Housing New Zealand, have been prepared to finance the building of dwellings on Māori land by taking security over the house, provided that the borrower can obtain a licence to occupy from the owners or trustees, where the land is held in trust, for a term of at least 21 years.

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Te Kooti Whenua Māori has directed that a hui-a-owners takes place for the sole purpose of an Election of Trustees, for each of the following Māori Reservations.

Located in:  Hui and court hearings Landowner notices

The Māori Land Court bench have released a practice note for lending money on whenua Māori.

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PĀNUI NO: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT: 26 A20230002589 29/93, 113/93 Deputy Registrar Marjorie Hazel Clarabel Greenwood - Succession to Toitoi Block (Crown Land Block VIII Lords River Survey District) - South Island Landless Natives (SILNA) Block 27 A20220018775 86/93 Deputy Registrar Toitoi (SILNA) Block - Amendment of Court Record at 76 TWP 248-311 regarding the successors of Kataraina (Karo) Ropata 4 28 A202300015...

Documents/Panui/Special-Panui-Te-Waipounamu-April-2023.pdf (209 kb)

1 Notification of applications that remain outstanding in the office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington October 2023 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 9th of August 2023, are hereby notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and have yet to be determined or set down for inquir...

Documents/Panui/October-2023-Notification-of-Applications-in-Office-of-Chief-Registrar-20230822.pdf (416 kb)