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Apply online Download the application form Transferring shares in an incorporation If you want to sell or gift your shares in an incorporation and no member of the PCA is able to take or buy the shares, the incorporation may do so instead.

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It sets out how Judge Reeves dealt with an application for accretion and for determination of ownership, where ownership records had not been maintained for over 100 years.

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Each district holds court sittings at their local office and in various other locations across the motu.

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At 2025 Chief Judge’s MB 373-390 (4 February 2025) the Court made orders amending a succession order to Teone Karepe I or Hoani Karepe at 32 T 117-119 (30 May 1972) and cancelling a succession order to Porokuru Te Kiwi at 155 ROT MB 234 (30 November 1970).

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TE WAIPOUNAMU PĀNUI Contact Details Office Te Waipounamu District Address Māori Land Court, Justice and Emergency Services Precinct, 20 Lichfield Street, Christchurch Mailing address DX Box WX11124, Christchurch Phone 03 962 4900 Email mlctewaipounamu@justice.govt.nz Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Closed on Public Holidays) He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā...

Documents/Panui/45.-Te-Waipounamu-4-September-2025.pdf (122 kb)

SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 81 11:00 AM AP-20240000008106 239/93 Marijke Warmenhoven He whakarerekētanga ki ngā tarahitī mō Pahaoa Marae Replace Moetatua Pamariki Michell Turoa, Hoani Park and Lee William Edmonds with Aroha Grant, Maia Calcott, Amanda Kerei and Kathleen Morrison as responsible trustees of Pahaoa Marae

Documents/Panui/21.-Waiariki-14-October-2025.pdf (122 kb)

Te rautaki Ao Māori A te reo Māori resource for words used in the Māori Land Court and the Waitangi Tribunal Ngā Kupu Māori mō te Kooti Whenua Māori me te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi ����������������� acting prudently mahi i runga i te āta tūpato acting reasonably mahi i runga i te āta whakaaro acting competently mahi i runga i te matatau ki ngā mahi acting in good conscience mahi i runga i te whakaaro pai acting impartially mahi i runga i te tōkeke active (as...

Documents/Articles/MLC-Purongo-a-tau-te-reo-printer-version.pdf (16 mb)