Term of office The interim committee of management’s term of office expires after the first annual general meeting is held. That meeting is to be held within six months after the Māori incorporation’s financial year ends.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)
For example, an application for succession will require a death certificate, any grant of administration (probate 2 or letters of administration 3) or the original will, minutes of a whānau meeting if a whānau trust is required and consents of the proposed trustees.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
The staff were involved in the special sitting of the Court held in Auckland for His Honour Judge Te Kani Williams.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
Investigating the administration of a reservation A beneficiary, that is, a person whom the reservation is intended to benefit, can apply to the Māori Land Court to conduct an inquiry into the administration of the reservation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
In 1894 the Court was given jurisdiction to grant probate and letters of administration with respect to Māori people.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
For example, for an application for succession, you’ll need a death certificate, any grant of administration (grant of probate2 or letters of administration3) or the original will, minutes of a whānau meeting if a whānau trust is required, and consents of the proposed trustees.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)
The MLC may direct a special meeting of shareholders be held. 19. A legal wife or husband. 20. When the High Court appoints a person to administer the estate of a deceased person (generally where there is no will or if the will does not name an executor), the Court’s authority for that person to act is given in a grant of letters of administration. 21.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
This certification should be filed with an application for succession (when grant of administration held) on form 21, and replaces Schedule 1 of that form.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-20-Certificate-by-administrator.pdf (85 kb)
Supporting documents required: death certificate or other evidence of death the will and/or probate/letters or grant of administration certificate by administrator (if applicable) (Form 20) deed of family arrangement (if applicable) 3.
How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-apply-for-succession.pdf (508 kb)
Thus in 2003 the situation that confronted me was that there were Māori land interests held by: a great-grandmother (deceased); two grandparents (deceased); one uncle (the “administrator”); myself and two brothers, with the balance of the interests spread throughout my remaining aunties and uncles, eight of whom were by then deceased.
