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...(Please select the name of the Māori Land Court District in which some or all of the lands or the subject matter of the application is located)
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Tairāwhiti Tākitimu Aotea Te Waipounamu
BLOCK(S):
NAME OF TRUST OR MĀORI RESERVATION:
APPLICATION:
I / We ...........................................................................................................................................................................
The historical list of owners has a written note recording that the block was a state
forest,11 which may have been a mistake and the cause of the land record falling
through the cracks.
S Overall, an average Māori land block has a size of 53.06ha and 114 owners.
S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,287,810.
Ahu whenua and whenua tōpū trusts are
land management trusts and generally involve whole
blocks of land.
• Kaitiaki trust
A kaitiaki trust relates solely to an individual who is a
minor5 or has a disability6 and is unable to manage their
own affairs.
The benefits of an ahu whenua trust include:
a greater opportunity to use the land
trustees can be appointed to administer and manage the block
owners can participate in meetings and decisions about the direction of the trust
the trust becomes the single point of contact for the block, and
the trust is a legal entity and trustees can set up a bank account to hold any funds for the beneficiaries.
In some cases, there are hundreds of owners for one block
or title¹. When an owner dies, it’s important to transfer
their interests to the person or people entitled to receive
those interests – the successors².
The Act recognises that blocks of Māori land are generally
owned by people connected to each other and to the land
through kin groups, such as iwi7 and hapū8.
...the Protected Objects
Act 197
(j) notice of appeal to Māori Appellate Court
(k) appeal against provisional or preliminary determination of Māori Land Court
(l) enforcement of obligations of trust under section 80(2) of the Maraeroa A and B
Blocks Claims Settlement Act 2012
(m) order for name to be included in roll of beneficiaries under section 13(4) of the
Orakei Act 1991
(n) order vesting land (or interest in land) acquired by Māori Trustee in persons or
body corporat...
In some cases there
are hundreds of owners for one block or
title 1. When an owner dies, it is important
to transfer his or her interests to whoever
is entitled to receive those interests.
In some cases there
are hundreds of owners for one block or
title 1. When an owner dies, it is important
to transfer his or her interests to whoever
is entitled to receive those interests.
