During the holiday period, Māori Land Court offices will be closed from 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen 10am, Monday 5 January 2026.
A national service for only urgent injunction applications is available Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 December. More details can be found here.
Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
Trustees to be removed as a result of resignation, retirement or death are: (if none then go to question 3)
Names of Trustees Reason for removal (resignation, retirement, death)
Note: If a trustee is to be removed because he or she is deceased, the Court will require reasonable evidence as to his or her death, for example, evidence
of attendance at the tangi, a copy of the death certificate, or other reliable evidence.
The Court is conducting an inquiry to determine the successors to the persons listed in the approved list for the
Hawea/Wanaka Substitute Block (SILNA). No or insufficient evidence has been identified for the deceased and the
Court will now hear evidence as to the successors for the deceased.
It makes recommendations on claims brought by Māori relating to legislation, policies, actions, or omissions of the Crown that are alleged to breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi. Visit Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi's webiste
Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa
The Outdoor Access Commission
Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission, is the Crown agency protecting and enhancing public access to the outdoors for everyone in New Zealand — walkers, m...
It makes recommendations on claims brought by Māori relating to legislation, policies, actions, or omissions of the Crown that are alleged to breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi. Visit the Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi website
Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa
The Outdoor Access Commission
Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission, is the Crown agency protecting and enhancing public access to the outdoors for everyone in New Zealand — walkers, moun...
If you are interested in, or affected by, this application and wish to make submissions
or provide evidence concerning the application, you must notify the Registrar in writing by 4pm on the
1st of October 2023 providing your name and address, telephone number and email address (if any) and
setting out your connection to the application and brief details of your concerns.
The names and addresses of any lessees or other occupiers of the land are:
Full Name
Address
Full Name
Address
Full Name
Address
Full Name
Address
Full Name
Address
Full Name
Address
9. The following evidence of support for the application is attached:
copy of trustees’ consents are attached.
More recently, whenua tōpū trusts have been used as a holding trust for the settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims. A whenua tōpū trust:
can include one or more Māori land blocks, or general land owned by Māori
can include a wide range of beneficiaries, for example, a community, hapū or iwi in a specific area
makes the land trustees legally responsible for managing the land
has a Court-approved trust order that sets out the rights and responsibilities of the trustees
requires that...
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee and be filed in the
Office of the Chief Registrar;
(ii) Please ensure that all information required on the
form is completed;
(iii) You must supply a list of Respondents and/or
affected parties and their contact details;
(iv) Where tick boxes are provided please
ensure you tick all those boxes that apply to your
application, unless you are required to select one
box, then...
