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If you are applying for an exemption from providing a special valuation, you’ll need to complete a form 26 with your vesting order application and pay an additional fee of $23.
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Download the application form (form 30)
Download the application form (form 31) Transferring land to someone who is not a member of the PCA
To transfer your land by gift or sale to a someone who is not a member of the preferred class of alienee (link to definition), you will need t...
For some applications, landowners will need to notify other owners of their application to the Court ahead of time so they can attend hui, support the application, make a payment offer, or object to the application.
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PĀNUI
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
Chief Judge application
To be heard at Whanganui
Māori Land Court,
Ingestre Chambers,
74 Inge...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP4 10:00 AM AP-20230000027307
/ A20180007206
328/93 Kahu o te Rangi
Ropata
Hongoeka 2B2B2 – Application for
an Occupation Order
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 7 10:00 AM AP-20250000014275 58/93 Stewart Robert
Coulson
Appeal 2025/27 - Lot 3 Deposited Plan
37325 (SA989/287) and a refusal to
grant applications for injunction and
determine status of land made at 283
Waikato Maniapoto MB 256-259 dated
15/9/2025 – Notice of Appeal
(Respondent: Māori Land Court)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP7 1:30 PM AP-20250000011700 43/93 Te Miru
Grandea
Veronica
Rapata
Takirau Ricky Rapata - Rehearing of
application He tauatanga ki a Takirau
Ricky Rapata - Succeed to the Māori
land interests of Takirau Ricky
Rapata also known as Ricky Takirau
Rapata or Takirau Rick Rapata (AP-
20250000006502)
If you have a current application in the Māori Land Court that is being delayed by a dispute, you can ask for your application to be put on hold while you go through the dispute resolution process.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP34 1:30 PM AP-20250000016324 19/93 Adrienne
Rangimokai
Fruean
Puketapu E block and Lot 1
Deposited Plan 16633 and Puketapu
E Māori Reservation – Injunction
against any person in respect of any
actual threatened trespass or other
injury to any Māori land or Māori
Reservation Respondents: Mahana
Knuckey, Jahmyl Watene-O'Carroll,
Tessa Wipiti, Nathan Hoeta, Rangi
Lahina, Quentin Laupama, Leona
Brunning, Meihana McDonald,
Rebecca Healy...
