During the holiday period, Māori Land Court offices will be closed from 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen 10am, Monday 5 January 2026.
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One of the great advantages of establishing a marae, papakāinga, meeting place, recreational or sports ground, or wāhi tapu as a Māori reservation is that while the land is a Māori reservation it cannot be alienated.
The Māori
Land Court operates under the provisions of
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (referred
to as ‘the Act’ throughout this booklet).
Māori Reservations is one of a series of Māori
Land Court booklets designed to help Māori
– and anyone else with an interest – to gain
a fuller understanding of current Māori land
matters.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to
make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day
of August 2022 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out
your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
The project was a joint one involving the Māori Land Court administration, LINZ and a sector sometimes forgotten in the literature on the project, the Māori Land Court judiciary.
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee (if any) and may be
filed at any office of the Court (with the exception
of an application seeking leave to appeal out of
time which must be lodged in the Office of the
Chief Registrar);
(ii) As this is a general application form, please
ensure that all information required on the form is
completed;
(iii) If the order sought is against one or more other
parties you mus...
Use this form to create an Ahu Whenua Trust (a land trust) by vesting one or more land blocks in trustees to
manage, as set out in a trust deed/order on behalf of the beneficial owner(s).
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of
September 2022 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out
your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
An obvious corollary to that proposition is, subject to the available resources and infrastructure of the trust to cater for such procedures. For example, one ahu whenua trust has over 8,000 beneficial owners for an area of land less than 200 hectares with income of less than $10,000.00 per annum.
In a pre-digital context, it simply wasn’t practical to
have one minute book series for a district or the court
as a whole; rather, it made more sense to have
multiple minute books based on geographic location
or activity.
