The first is that where trustees are not appointed according to an election the Court is accused of ignoring the wishes of the owners or of usurping their role in electing individuals of the owners’ choice.
The LAWASIA Council consists of presidents or other office-bearers of the peak legal bodies of each member country.
An elected trustee formally becomes a responsible trustee when the Court has granted an order of appointment. General functions of a trustee Te Ture Whenua Māori Act requires that every person who is appointed as a responsible trustee must carry out the: • terms of the trust • proper administration and management of the business of the trust • preservation of the assets of the trust • collection and distribution of the income of...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/20210715-Trustees-Role-and-Duties.pdf (349 kb)
Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
Conflicts of interest arise in a number of different situations.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Maori-Land-Court-Recusal-Guidelines.pdf (226 kb)
Some are more lucky than that, usually in circumstances where they are something in the nature of an only child of an only child of large owner.
(state full name) apply for a direction that the Registrar call a meeting of assembled owners of the above land THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING IS TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION(S): (Set out details of the resolution(s).
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-32-Application-to-call-meeting.pdf (88 kb)
This type of trust is also used for receiving Crown land4 as part of any settlement.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)
For a period of time, it will only be Judges of the Māori Land Court who can be appointed to act as mediators under Part 3A of the Act.
For a period of time, it will only be Judges of the Māori Land Court who can be appointed to act as mediators under Part 3A of the Act.
