Records created by the various registries regarding these processes include a range of variously titled file series, such as: Incorporation records: Incorporation is the process of establishing a legal body corporate structure to assist and promote the use and administration of Māori freehold land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
This has been well understood by Māori land owners. Since the Act’s inception over 1500 ahu whenua trusts have been created (and only a few terminated).
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
The legislation aspired to create a process by which Māori could convert their land from customary tenures to the freehold tenures of English law, using a special Court for this purpose.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Partition a partition is created when one or more owners separate their shares from the rest of the landowners and create a separate title.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Partition a partition is created when one or more owners separate their shares from the rest of the landowners and create a separate title.
ORDER DECLARING TRUSTS This is the Court order created by the Māori Land Court that sets out all the terms of a trust.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
Land whose beneficial ownership the Māori Land Court has determined by freehold order (that is, the Court has created a title for the land and determined the beneficial owners to that land).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
That is because once the urupā is created, trustees will be appointed to administer the reservation and the underlying beneficial owners will no longer have legal responsibilities in relation to that land.
Since, the Court has had authority to create, modify and cancel Māori reservations by court order. 3.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
The process to do this is different from other Māori Land Court application processes.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
