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The
advertisement should identify the land and
state the purpose for the meeting.
The completed application, with the
meeting’s minutes and the application fee,
should be sent to the Māori Land Court.
Here an individual can form the trust and appoint trustees and the shareholding, which maybe across many blocks, is held for the uri of that individual down through the generations.
Upload any documents as required
TIP: If your applicationform is not showing, please visit Submit an application | Māori Land Court
which will give you different options for logging an application.
Trustees and Māori communities must spend a considerable amount of time and effort fundraising, making applicationsfor grants and donating their own time to working bees and the like to look after the reservation.
Approximately 58 per cent of Māori land is currently held by governance entities provided for under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993. The Māori Land Court receives on average 1,600 applications per year in relation to the establishment and management of trusts and incorporations.
Fee increase summary
Current rate New rate
$22 $23
$66 $68
$220 $228
$385 $399
Detailed fee list
Māori Land Court Current rate (inc
GST)
New rate
(inc GST)
Filing an application in respect of the following:
(a) hearing and determining any claim to recover damages from trespass or any other
injury to Māori freehold land
(b) hearing and determining any proceeding founded on contract or tort where debt,
demand, or damage relates to Māori freehold land
(c) any o...
The Court may, on considering your notification, arrange for the application to be set down for a formal hearing
if the application has yet to be determined or for a rehearing if the application has already been determined.
They have effected this by amending the rules of arbitration in their country (a form of regulation) to provide for this. If an arbitration agreement in a contract refers to those rules, the arbitrator then has jurisdiction to grant binding interim relief.