The class also encompasses all records to do with the use of land and with processes to change Māori land titles since the inception of the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
Land information new Zealand will issue a provisional register title for the land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Land information new Zealand will issue a provisional register title for the land.
TOITŪ TE WHENUA (LINZ) Land Information New Zealand – Custodian of land titles, title information and maps etc.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
Much has been achieved by the project for Māori land owners, their whanau and hapu by giving greater certainty to title issues.
Unlike most ordinary freehold titles, however, Māori land is usually a multiply-owned freehold.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
YES NO 3. Is there a Land Transfer / Land Information New Zealand title?
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-39-Application-for-a-partition.pdf (322 kb)
There are 27,137 Māori freehold land titles and approximately 2.3 million ownership interests in those titles.
Are there problems with those titles? Is the concern that the Court registry maintains title records in addition to Land Information New Zealand maintaining the legal title?
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
