MLC Form 4 Notice application
If you wish to appear you should contact the Court and file a Notice of Intention to Appear on Form 5 and serve a copy on the applicant.
If you wish to appear you should contact the Court and file a Notice of Intention to Appear on Form 5 and serve a copy on the applicant.
Interest based trusts hold interests (or shares in Māori land blocks, while ‘land based’ trusts may manage a Māori land block or blocks on behalf of landowners.
Information about whenua is generally held by the district office that is located closest to that land block. You can visit one of our offices to view: current and historic ownership lists for whenua Māori minutes of hearings of Court and Registrar decisions current and historic memorial schedule information recording leases, occupations and other land uses orders made by the court or a Registrar – including: title orders (creat...
Term Description ORDER 3 Order Insert the size of the area to be occupied. Also include the name of the application, the name of the block and its legal description.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/2021-03-12-Example-Occupation-Order.pdf (150 kb)
It is a good idea to ask them about: What land blocks you might be an owner in An accurate record of your whakapapa How you became an owner or beneficiary to your whenua.
External link Māori Assembled Owners Regulations 1995 Sets out the rules on how a meeting of owners of Māori land must be held, how it is recorded and how the outcomes are reported.
Judges are appointed to the bench based on their knowledge and experience of te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
On this page Applying for succession Succession application types Succession and whāngai Succession with no living descendants Succession with a living husband, wife, or partner Māori freehold land can be owned by one owner or several owners and in some cases, there might be hundreds of owners in one block or title of land.
That sale cannot proceed unless the owners give to the preferred classes of alienees a right of first refusal.
Documents/Panui/Otaraoa-B3-Notice-to-Preferred-Class.pdf (195 kb)
1 Notification of applications that remain outstanding in the office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington June 2024 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 12th of April 2024, are hereby notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and...
Documents/Panui/June-2024-Notification-of-Applications-in-Office-of-Chief-Registrar-20240421.pdf (404 kb)