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APPLICATION
SEEKING MĀORI LAND COURT SPECIAL AID
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993
Section 98(3) or 98(9)
Form 53
Rule 16.1(3)
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5.
The beneficiaries are called the beneficial
owners.
2. For information on trustees’ duties and responsibilities see Part 3 of the Trusts
Act 2019 and Part 12 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.
3.
• whether:
1. the balance sheet is properly drawn up and gives a true
and fair view of the state of the Māori incorporation’s
affairs
2. the profit and loss account is properly drawn up and
gives a true and fair view of the results of the Māori
incorporation for that financial year
3. the share register has been duly and correctly kept.
These principles are:
• a trust should be administered in a way that is consistent
with its terms and objectives, and
• a trust should be administered in a way that avoids
unnecessary cost and complexity.
Historically, most succession applications were heard by a
Māori Land Court judge.
Now, if your succession application is assessed to be ‘simple
and uncontested’, then it can be decided by a Māori Land
Court registrar without a court sitting (unless you request to
be heard by a judge in a court sitting).
Te roa o te tūnga kaitiaki
Ka mau tonu te kaitiaki i taua tūnga kia
whakahau rā anō te kōti, kua ea te wā ki a ia.
Ka āhei anō te kaitiaki ki te rihaina i te wā e
hiahia ana a ia, ā, mā te Kooti Whenua Māori
rānei a ia e whakamutu mēnā ka rangona
1 He whenua ehara nō Māori, ehara nō te
Karauna.
2 Ko te Kuini tonu te rangatira whai mana o
Aotearoa hei tā te Karauna.
You
do not need to file separate applications for
each district.
1 The official record of legal ownership of
property and the legal evidence of a person’s
ownership rights.
2A person who receives, as of right, a share of
a deceased person’s estate.
3 Someone who is given authority by the
High Court to manage and administer the
estate of a deceased person.
Kei ngā tari katoa o te Kooti
Whenua Māori ngā pepa tono.
1 Te rangatiratanga, te mana pupuri whenua
tūturu me ngā pepa e whakaatu ana i taua
mana i raro i te ture.
2 He tangata e tika ana i raro i te ture kia
whiwhi ki ngā hea o te tangata kua mate.
3 He tangata kua tohua, kua whai mana mai
i te Kooti Teitei ki te whakahaere me te
tohatoha i ngā rawa a te tangata kua mate,
ina tohua e te Kooti Teitei he kaitohatoha,
ka tukua e te kooti he momo reta
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