MLC Form 30 Vesting order
Use this form when transferring interests in Māori Land by sale or gift between owners in the same block, owners and their children or owners and any other member of the preferred class of alienee.
Use this form when transferring interests in Māori Land by sale or gift between owners in the same block, owners and their children or owners and any other member of the preferred class of alienee.
These rules ensure that the Act’s intent is met – to promote the retention of Māori land in the hands of its owners and their whānau and hapū6 and to facilitate the occupation, development and utilisation of that land for the benefit of its owners and their whānau and hapū.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
The purpose of updating the list of owners is to ensure successors can attend and vote at meetings of owners to decide on how to receive the land.
Click “Search” d. Click on the “Owner name” (coloured green and underlined) TIP: Make sure you try all the different names an owner might be known by including nicknames, married names, adopted, whāngai, Māori names, and names that may have been spelt incorrectly.
From 1 July 2025, the Māori Land Court fees will increase by 3.65%. The details are set out below.
Documents/Articles/Detailed-list-of-fee-changes.pdf (287 kb)
In broad terms, land that is not Māori land and is not Crown land (see next item). 4.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
Most Māori land is rural and much of it is remote. The eyes were picked out of Aotearoa’s available land by successive Native Land Court regimes and rapidly converted to European land in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
A copy of the notice of the meeting given to the owners is attached (including any newspaper advertisement).
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-38-Application-to-add-reduce-replace-or-remove-trustees-202104.pdf (123 kb)
v The Act: • promotes the retention and use of Māori land • facilitates the occupation, development and use of that land • ensures decisions made about Māori land are fair and balanced, taking into account the needs of all the owners and their beneficiaries.
Full names of owner's brothers and sisters: (if any and specify whether full brother or sister, whether half brother or sister, whether any were adopted in or out of family, whether legally or as a whāngai) a.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-1-General-application-v2.pdf (113 kb)