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Our Act provides various safeguards to ensure that Māori land may only be transferred by court order following an application to succeed, gift, or sell to the PCA. Ownership interests can only be transferred outside of the PCA if members of the PCA decline to apply for those interests.

Located in:  Māori land

The application you need to complete will depends on whether the person you're transferring your land interests or shares to is a member of the preferred class of alienee (PCA) .

Located in:  Māori land Becoming a landowner

You should answer with your full name and address. • State clearly what your case is about and what you want to achieve.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)

‘Simple’ succession applications have no complicating factors. Examples of what could be considered ‘simple’ succession includes: • all the people to succeed are the natural children of the person who has passed away, and they will all receive equal shares in the interests; or • further land interests or shares owned by a person who has passed away are identified and can be succeeded to by the same people in the same way as the earlier interests.

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

The person or object is thus removed from the sphere of the profane and put into the sphere of the sacred.

Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)

As the applicant it is your job to state clearly what your application is about and what you want to achieve.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)

In point of fact, the Panel candidly acknowledges that it abandoned a “what is wrong with the current law and how should it be fixed” approach in favour of what it terms a “principle-based approach”, that is, “what should the law look like”.

Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)

However, from my own personal experience the benefits are there and I would encourage persons, when bringing succession applications, to seriously consider the formation of a whānau trust.

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In some registry offices these records are contained in a series of records called personal or personalty files (personalty is a legal term meaning personal property).

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)

But it created a new set of problems. Exactly what sort of interests in the land did the people listed in the memorial of title actually have?

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