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Details as to how ownership of the land is to be apportioned after partition
Details of notice of the application or proposal to the owners, the minutes of any meetings
held for this purpose, and the amount of support for the proposal
Copy of the current (certificate of) title (if any) of any land included in partition
Local Authority approval (where applicable)
Consents of owners
Consents of Trustees (where applicable)...
Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
Use this form to file an application to the Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court to exercise their power under
section 44 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 to correct a mistake, error or omission on the part of the Court or
in the presentation of the facts of a case to the Court.
For more information visit www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz
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CHECKLIST OF DOCUMENTS REQUIRED:
List of owners present at the gathering
Statement setting out how the alienee is a member of one of the preferred classes of alienees (if applicable),
including any necessary whakapapa details
Roll valuation or special valuation of the land and any improvements to it by a registered valuer (as applicable)
Minutes of the family gat...
(state full
name) apply for a direction that the Registrar call a meeting of assembled owners of the above land
THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING IS TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION(S):
(Set out details of the resolution(s).
Use this form to seek Court confirmation of an instrument or agreement of sale or gift of Māori Land;
or to confirm a resolution of assembled owners to transfer Māori Land by way of sale or gift.
During the Māori Freehold Land Registration Project, the Court came across a number of instances of this kind. In a small number of cases with the consent of the owners of the land the Court was able to formalise the situation.