Māori Land Court application guides
To support you through the application process, four plain-language application guides have been developed:
How to apply for succession
How to apply for Partition of Māori freehold land
How to constitute a whānau trust
How to constitute an ahu whenua trust or whenua tōpū trust
These new guides are designed to help you identify the right application to make, understand where to begin, and prepare all the information needed...
The matters that maybe dealt with by an Assembled Owners Meeting are set out in the schedule at the end of
of this form
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee and be filed with
the Registrar in the District in which the land is
located;
(ii) Please ensure that all information required
on the form is completed;
(iii) Where tick boxes are provided please
ensure you tick all those boxe...
Contact Phone Number(s):
Home: Work:
Mobile:
Email Address:
NOTE:
(1) Where email addresses are given these may be used as a means of notice and service; and
(2) As well as filing this notice in the Court, you must also send a copy to the applicant.
If the trustees do not convene a special meeting for this purpose within 2 months of receiving
the written notice, the aggrieved person may file in court an application under section 238 of
the Act asking the court to:
(a) review the trustees’ response or failure to respond to the aggrieved person’s notice;
(b) give directions to the trustees; and/or
(c) put in place an injunction to prevent the trustees from taking any further steps in relation
to the subject of the gr...
That written notice must be filed in the Māori Land Court not later than [date]
and should include the grounds on which the member supports or opposes the application.
You should attach this request to your application and include any evidence required to support your request, and file
everything with the Registrar for consideration (or for referral to a Judge).
Individual whānau
members do not need to file separate applications.
Succession applications are made under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 and the Māori Land
Court Rules 2011.
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Pātaka Whenua gives you the ability to search and access Māori land information, submit an enquiry and file a Court application from anywhere at any time.
