This information provides landowners, community groups, and government bodies understand the state and management of the reported land type.
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/2025-10-28-MLC-Maori-Land-Update-2025.pdf (229 kb)
Work is now underway to create a more advanced system to provide a better service to landowners. This is in a more foetal stage of planning so I do not have much information but I am told it will improve access, accuracy and security of information contained in the Māori Land Court, which is very positive.
Establishing a Māori incorporation To establish a Māori incorporation, landowners need to apply to the Māori Land Court. They need to: • hold a meeting, in accordance with Part 9 of the Act, at which they pass a resolution to establish a Māori incorporation or • have 15 percent of the total shareholding consent and • send an application with a copy of the minutes of the meeting to the Māori Land Court.
Establishing a Māori incorporation To establish a Māori incorporation, landowners need to apply to the Māori Land Court. They need to: • hold a meeting, in accordance with Part 9 of the Act, at which they pass a resolution to establish a Māori incorporation or • have 15 percent of the total shareholding consent and • send an application with a copy of the minutes of the meeting to the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)
Alienation is when landowners grant certain rights of their land to another person.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
He has led Māori Land Court appointed facilitation processes, Meetings of Owners, and governance appointments, supporting whānau, trustees, and landowners to resolve complex issues through tikanga informed, consent based processes.
...trustee AP-20230000032336 Rule 10.1(1)/2011 Ivor Lett Ivor Te Kahu Steven Lett also known as Ivor Te-Kahu Stephen Lett or Ivor Te Kahu Stephen Lett or Ivor Te Kahu Lett - Part IV search of beneficial interest in Mäori freehold land for a deceased landowner AP-20230000032341 164/93 158/93 Roberta Anne Adams Parihaka 14B and other blocks - Transfer shares from Te Kawengaroa Roberta Anne Adams-Vuglar to Robert William Adams AP-20230000032458 113/93 117/93 Daniel Tuakana Cowan...
Documents/Panui/0305124-Ministry-of-Justice_Panui-April-2024.pdf (1.7 mb)
Our Purpose Our purpose is to promote and facilitate the reten- tion of Māori land in Māori hands, and to support landowners to use, occupy, and develop their whenua for the benefit of all landowners, their whānau and hapū.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2024-Matariki-2025.pdf (16 mb)
We appreciate the work that you and other lawyers do for our Māori landowners, and we thank you once again for your input into this review.
Documents/Practice-notes/2023.10.17-MLC-Special-Aid-Practice-Note-FINAL.pdf (367 kb)
Te pā whenua describes the experience that we want to deliver to landowners. It is inspired by the experience manuhiri have when they visit the marae.
