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To apply for a lease of more than 52 years (a long-term lease), you’ll need to complete a General Form of Application, and include evidence that at least half of the owners or people who own 50% of the land or 50% of the shares (if the land is vested in an incorporation) have approved the long-term lease.

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SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 12:30 PM AP-20240000006962 164/93 Kopa Wiremu Aupouri Mahanga 1 & other blocks - Transfer of shares by way of gif t f rom Kopa Aupouri to Kingi Aupouri and Wiremu Aupouri SP2 12:40 PM AP-20240000009564 100(2)(a)/93 81/93 Jeremy Kenneth Williams (represented by Counsel: Rox Soriano, Style Toleafoa & Dr Bryan Gilling) He tauatanga ki a Kenneth Sydney Williams, deceased ki a Elizabeth Josephine Wil...

Documents/Panui/12.-Tairawhiti-2-December-2025.pdf (138 kb)

SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP11 11:30AM AP-20260000001832 67/93 Janette Hamilton- Pearce, Allamein Ann Tangira, Manuelle Garrett (Christie), Elaine Tangira, Evelyn Pearl Tangira (Wright), Atareta Wirihana Motuaruhe 5E - Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation (Respondents: Anthony Trinick, Te Kiira Parkinson, Inys Calcott) – Judicial Conference SP12 11:30AM AP-20260000001834...

Documents/Panui/23.-Waiariki-18-March-2026.pdf (133 kb)

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 (creating Māori land) trust orders (names of trustees and terms of trust) succession orders (names of successors to an estate) vesting orders (transfers of shares in Māo...

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Māori incorporations Whenua owned by several people can be administered through a Māori incorporation, which becomes the legal owner of the land and assets vested in it. The landowners become shareholders, and own shares in the incorporation rather than in an individual land block.

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These regulations only apply to Māori land blocks that do not have existing trustees or which are not vested in a Māori incorporation.  Other acts and legislation We hear applications relating to Māori freehold land under select Acts, or parts of them, including: Property Law Act 2007 Family Protection Act 1955 Government Roading Powers Act 1989 Law Reform (Testamentary Promises) Act 1949 Local Government Act 1974.

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