Comment Box While the land and any other property vested in the trust is held and used for the benefit of the beneficial owners, the beneficial owners are not the legal owners.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)
Māori custom. 10. The owner of a beneficial interest in land. Where land is vested in trustees, the trustees own the land as legal owners on behalf of the beneficiaries.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.3E-OCT21-Transferring-Maori-Land-Shares.pdf (78 kb)
COMBINED PARTITION An owner or group of owners may benefit by combining their interests, held in two neighbouring blocks, into one block.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
The Court hearing The vesting order application will be considered at a Māori Land Court hearing. The owner of the shares or interests being transferred should attend.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
The Court hearing The vesting order application will be considered at a Māori Land Court hearing. The owner of the shares or interests being transferred should attend.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english-v2.pdf (333 kb)
The Court hearing The vesting order application will be considered at a Māori Land Court hearing. The owner of the shares or interests being transferred should attend.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Some Māori land titles have a majority of owners who cannot or will not succeed to their ownership interest despite attempts to encourage them to succeed.
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
There are 27,137 Māori freehold land titles and approximately 2.3 million ownership interests in those titles. So we are dealing with multiple owners averaging 85 owners per title – the lowest 10% averaging 1 owner to each title, and the highest 10%, averaging 629 owners in each title.
If one owner dies, the other joint tenant(s) automatically succeed to the interest that the deceased joint tenant held.
It’s designed to promote the use and administration of the land in the interest of the owners. These trusts are often used for commercial purposes
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)
