Fifth The project has also highlighted the need for the Māori Land Court to be more proactive in its identification and review of defunct trusts and incorporations due to circumstances such as the death of key trustee or management committee members.
Having made contact with the trustees of various ahu whenua trusts and the administrators of incorporations we now regularly receive correspondence from those entities.
http://maorilandcourt.govt.nz/your-maori-land/trusts-and- incorporations http://maorilandcourt.govt.nz/your-maori-land/trusts-and- incorporations http://maorilandcourt.govt.nz/contact-us
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/20210715-Trustees-Role-and-Duties.pdf (349 kb)
You can visit one of our offices to view: current and historic ownership lists for whenua Māori minutes of hearings of Court and Registrar decisions current and historic memorial schedule information recording leases, occupations and other land uses orders made by the court or a Registrar – including: title orders (creating Māori land) trust orders (names of trustees and terms of trust) succession orders (names of successors to an estate) vesting orders (transfers of shares in Māori land...
Some trusts and incorporations also provide financial assistance through grants and scholarships.
Kei te tū tonu tō tono kaporeihana (me ōna tikanga katoa i whakamanahia ai tērā tono) engari me mahi tonu i raro anō i te Ture, me Te Māori Incorporations Constitutions Regulations 1994. Ko ngā whakaritenga ā ture katoa e pānuitia nei i roto i tēnei pukapuka ka kitea i roto i te ture Māori Incorporations Constitution Regulations 1994.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-tereo.pdf (949 kb)
Is the land vested in a Māori Incorporation? YES NO NOTE: If the answer is yes a copy of a special resolution supporting the application must be provided.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-39-Application-for-a-partition.pdf (194 kb)
The order will then be written up in the Court title records if it affects land, and will be sent to any party who has to act on it, for example the Māori trustee if the Māori trustee has been ordered to pay money he/she is holding, or a Māori incorporation if the order affects shares in that incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
A legal entity such as a company, incorporation or Māori trust board. A trustee does not have to be an owner in the land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
Trustees may act by majority pursuant to section 227 of the Act. 1.11 Each Trustee must use reasonable endeavours to: (a) provide each ahu whenua trust or Māori incorporation in which the Trust holds interests with current contact details for the Trust; and (b) procure that any dividends or other benefits to which the Trust is entitled from each ahu whenua trust or Māori incorporation in which the Trust holds interests are paid to the Trust. 11 SCHEDULE 2...
