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ROHE O TĀKITIMU
NATIONAL PĀNUI | TE PĀNUI Ā-MOTU
March | Poutūterangi
2025
Contents
Applications for hearing in March | Poutūterangi 2025
2 - 5 Descriptions of Application types by Section
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Legislative changes affecting trusts
Effective from Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021
Updated provisions for removing a trustee
The Act now allows for the Māori Land Court to remove a
trustee if it is satisfied that they have lost the capacity to
perform their functions as a trustee, or that their removal is
desirable for the proper execution of the trust (for example
because they repeatedly refuse or fail to act as a trustee, they
become an undischarged bankrupt, or they are no longer
suitab...
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Succession and Trust application forms
Form 20: Certificate by administrator
Rule 10.2(3), Sections 111 or 113
(PDF 263 kb)
Form 21: Succession (grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(2)(a), Sections 113 and 117
(PDF 370 kb)
Form 22: Succession (no grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(1),(2), Sections 113 and 118
(PDF 371 kb)
Form 23: Application for whānau trust (with succession)
Rule 12.3, Section 214
(PDF 14...
Use this form to create a Whānau Trust by vesting some or all of your interests in trustees to hold on behalf of the
descendants of a given person or tupuna (the beneficiaries)
If you are creating a Whānau Trust as part of a succession application please complete form 23.
What the Māori Freehold Land Registration Project has done has been to provide an invaluable updated base of knowledge for a new generation of policy makers keen to review and improve the manner in which owners, their whanau or hapu hold title. But the real challenge remains what it has always been for us all – the administration of Māori land and the delivery of services in accordance with the aspirations or rangatiratanga of Māori to retain, utilise and develop their land for the benef...
Having the ability to appoint up to two mediators is helpful, given that at times one single mediator may not necessarily have all of the relevant skills, particularly if there are a range of property law matters, together with issues of tikanga or where the parties wish to hold the mediation in te reo Māori. There may be occasions, for example whereby a sole mediator may have strengths in the law and property issues, but may not have the ability to manage tikanga issues that underline th...
