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
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of April
providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection
with the application and brief details of your concerns.
(Address to which documents or correspondence in connection with the application can be posted or delivered)
Phone Number(s):
Home: Work:
Mobile: Fax:
Email Address:
NOTE: Where fax or email addresses are given these may be used as a means of notice and service.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of
July 2023 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your
connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make submissions or
provide evidence concerning the application, you must notify the Registrar in writing by 4 pm on the first
working day of November providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any)
setting out your connection to the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to
make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of
June 2023 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your
connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of
September 2022 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out
your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make submissions or
provide evidence concerning the application, you must notify the Registrar in writing by 4 pm on the 1st of
September 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.
You can apply
if you are:
• the owner of the Māori land shares to be transferred
• the person who will receive the Māori land shares
• a trustee for either of the people mentioned above.
The applicant, or counsel for the applicant, must sign the
application for the vesting order.
As part of a mortgage application or loan application, you will be required to provide financial and income information, which the bank will review to determine your ability to repay the loan.
If
the problems cannot be resolved, the landowners can apply
to the MLC to:
• try and resolve issues through mediation using the Court’s
dispute resolution service
• review the terms, operation or other aspects of the trust
• add, replace or remove trustees
• investigate the trust
• enforce the terms of the trust
• vary the terms of the trust
• terminate the trust.
An application to the MLC needs to be filed on the relevant
application form and accompanied by the app...