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Apply online Download the application form Download the trustee consent form Te whakawātea i tētahi kaitiaki (utu tāpae $68) Remove a trustee (filing fee $68) Trustees can be removed for a variety of reasons.

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Ngā puka tono Application forms Find the application form you need. Ngā utu tono Application fees Find out what fees you'll need to pay for your application.

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Apply for a fee remittal in Pātaka Whenua  Download the fee remittal application form  From 1 July 2025, the Māori Land Court fees will increase by 3.65%.

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It simply means that GIS will bring the written data about the land to life in picture form. Your land will be brought up in front of you.

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This includes who are beneficiaries of the trust, the name and contact details of the trustees, and information about the appointment or removal of trustees.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Factsheet-for-landowners-Trustee-Act.pdf (68 kb)

Furthermore, if trustees were instead appointed there would be no need to make special provision for PSGEs or Māori trusts and incorporations to take on that role as s 222(1) of the Act already permits them to be trustees.

Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)

Here an individual can form the trust and appoint trustees and the shareholding, which maybe across many blocks, is held for the uri of that individual down through the generations.

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However, it is possible to make application to the Court to have an area excluded from a reservation pursuant to section 338(5), and then to set up an ahu whenua trust in relation to the excluded area with the object of allowing housing development to take place. Trustees could then be appointed to administer it, and they would be able to grant leases or licences for the necessary term.

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Fifth The project has also highlighted the need for the Māori Land Court to be more proactive in its identification and review of defunct trusts and incorporations due to circumstances such as the death of key trustee or management committee members. It is rarely the case that the Māori Land Court judges do not appoint people into these positions where selected by owners.

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Different spelling of names: landowners often have more than one name, and not all of those names may have been known when the initial application was submitted.

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