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The Landless Natives Act (SILNA) 1906 was passed and authorised the transfer of land to South Island Māori to meet their future economic stability.

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SUCCESSION The process of transferring the Māori land shares of a deceased person to the persons entitled to receive those shares.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)

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.

Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-25-Confirmation-alienation.pdf (194 kb)

Two types of Māori land are defined - Māori freehold land and Māori customary land.

Located in:  Māori land

The Māori Land Court has had a controversial history.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)

This trust order is drafted to allow the trustees to purchase land, but not to sell it. That is because most Māori trusts focus on retaining land.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)

Use this form when exchanging some or all of your interests in Māori Land by sale or gift with some or all of the Māori Land interests of a different owner in a different block of Māori Land.

Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-35-Exchange-order.pdf (248 kb)

Succession is the legal transfer of land interests or shares from a person who has passed away (the deceased) to their descendants.

Located in:  Māori land Becoming a landowner

Succession is the legal transfer of interests or shares in Māori land from a person who has passed away to the people who are legally entitled to own those interests.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Factsheet-Simple-and-uncontested-succession-applications-web-version.pdf (183 kb)

Ngā tono $68 $68 applications Succession to Māori land Transfer of shares in Māori land Establishment of a trust over Māori land Adding, reducing, or removing trustees of a trust which manages Māori land Determining the ownership of structures on Māori land Occupation of Māori land Ngā tono $228 $228 applications Partition, subdivision, amalgamation and aggregation of Māori land