The Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025 came into force on 27 August 2025 introducing new ways for Māori landowners to take action around water service matters affecting whenua Māori. These include appealing decisions that allow water service providers to enter Māori land to do their work, and applying for charging orders if landowners have paid more than their share of water services charges on Māori freehold land held in multiple ownership.
NOTICE OF MEETING OF ASSEMBLED OWNERS
Part 9 Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993
In the Māori Land Court
of New Zealand
Aotea District
TAKE NOTICE that Richard Muller via Haybarn Farms Limited made application to the Māori
Land Court at Whanganui for a meeting of Omuturangi 7C2 seeking:
That the said land be leased to Richard Muller via Haybarn Farms Limited for a term
of ten (10) years, commencing on the 21st day of February 2024.
In August 2020, the Government passed targeted
changes to Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 to simplify
the legal processes for owning, occupying and using
Māori land.
20 July 2023
MEDIA STATEMENT
Chief Justice welcomes the appointment of
new Chief Māori Land Court Judge
The Chief Justice welcomes the announcement by Associate Minister of Māori
Development, the Hon Nanaia Mahuta, of Judge Caren Fox’s appointment as
Chief Judge of Te Kooti Whenua Māori | Māori Land Court.
Chief Judge Fox (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Te Whānau a Apanui) is the 17th
Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court, and the first wahine Māori to hold the role....
For more information about The South Island Landless Natives Act (SILNA) and the work of Te Kooti Whenua Māori and updating the lists of potential owners for the four remaining SILNA Blocks Hāwea-Wanaka, Whakapoai, Port Adventure and Toitoi, please see our SILNA page.
In August 2020, the Government passed targeted
changes to Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 to simplify
the legal processes for owning, occupying and using
Māori land.
In August 2020, the Government passed targeted
changes to Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 to simplify
the legal processes for owning, occupying and using
Māori land.
I whakatakotohia e Ngā Kaiwhakapūmau i te Reo te pētihana Reo Māori he hiahia nō rātou kia kitea te reo Māori ki ngā kura katoa o te motu me tō rātou whakapono, he manawa whenua tō tātou reo Māori, mā te reo Māori te iwi Māori e whakaora.
The mediation process available is a simplified version of the process that was provided for in the proposed changes to Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 developed by the previous National Government.
The
mediation process available is a simplified version of the process that was provided for in the
proposed changes to Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 developed by the previous National
Government.
