Legislative changes supporting
housing initiatives
Effective from Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021
Why make this change?
The changes in the Act respond to demand to build
papakāinga housing on Māori land for the purposes of
supporting Māori into housing and whānau to return to
their whenua.
Ko ngā tuhinga kāore i whakaurua ki te pūkete tūmatanui ko:
Ngā kōnae wira (ngā wira taketake me ngā whakatau whakamanatanga wira ka tukuna e te Kooti Whenua Māori)
Ngā kōnae whaiaro (ngā tukutanga whakahaere a te Kooti Whenua Māori, ngā kōnae rānei mō ngā rawa whaiaro i tua atu i te whenua Māori)
Ngā kōnae whāngai (ina whakaaetia he whāngai e te Kooti Whenua Māori)
Ngā tuhinga, pūkete rānei, nā te tawhito me te āhua, kua kore e taea te whāwhā
Ngā tuhinga, pūkete rānei kua a...
Full names of donor’s/transferor’s brothers and sisters: (if any and specify whether full brother or sister,
whether half brother or sister, whether any were adopted in or out of family, whether legally or as a whāngai)
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b.
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Simple and uncontested
succession applications
Effective from Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021
Why make this change?
The time and travel costs associated with attending a court
sitting are removed when an application can be decided by a
registrar.
A list of recent Māori Land Updates can be downloaded as follows:
Document
Date
Māori Land Update 2025
28/10/2025
Māori Land Update 2024
23/09/2024
Māori Land Update 2023
19/05/2023
Māori Land Update 2022
16/07/2022
Māori Land Update 2021
09/02/2022
Māori Land Update 2020
09/02/2021
Māori Land Update 2019
27/08/2019
Māori Land Update 2018
30/06/2018
Māori Land Update 2017
30/06/2017
Māori Land Update 2016
30/06/2016
Māori Land Update 2015
30/06/201...
Legislative changes affecting trusts
Effective from Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021
Updated provisions for removing a trustee
The Act now allows for the Māori Land Court to remove a
trustee if it is satisfied that they have lost the capacity to
perform their functions as a trustee, or that their removal is
desirable for the proper execution of the trust (for example
because they repeatedly refuse or fail to act as a trustee, they
become an undischarged bankrupt, or they are no longer...
For a
full explanation, please refer to either the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 | Māori Land Act 1993 or the
Māori Land Court Rules 2011
SECTION DESCRIPTION
4/55 Governor-General in council may declare land to be a Māori reserve
6/1983 Determine succession to Titi Islands lands (order)
12/75 Determination of ownership of taonga tūturu found
18(1)(a)/93 Exercise general jurisdiction of court
18(1)(b)/93 Determine the relative interests of the owners
19/93 Application for inju...
Trusts Act 2019 impacts on trusts
Effective from 30 January 2021
What do trustees need to do differently?
There are new requirements on trustees to keep and share certain
information.
In the issues paper produced
in April 2021 by the Law Commission entitled “Review of Succession: Rights to a person’s property on
death” the paper identifies a number of tikanga that I consider to be relevant and reproduce here.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP21 10.30AM AP-20230000032630 45/93 Bryan Linden
Calman
CJ 2023/50 -Ena Caroline Calman
also known as Ena Caroline Calmon
and a succession order made at 60
Aotea MB 159 on 1/7/1996 –
Application to the Chief Judge
SP22 11.00AM AP-20230000035635 45/93 Tutehounuku
Timoti James
Karetai
CJ 2023/67 - Barry John
Tutehounuku Karetai and succession
orders made at 129 South Island MB
60-61 on 3/2/2009 - Application to
the Chief Judge
SP23 11.30AM...