During the holiday period, Māori Land Court offices will be closed from 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen 10am, Monday 5 January 2026.
Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
Other status types
As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the
following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court:
Crown Land
Crown Land Reserved for Māori
General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust)
General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust);
Ownership Only (ownership interests in secondary property rights such as easements,
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To enable the Court to make a determination about your suitability as a trustee, please supply the following information (if
relevant):
a) I am a current or past trustee on other trusts or am or was a member of other organisations, namely:
Name of Trust/Committee Position held
b) I have the following relevant work or other experience; e.g kaumātua associated with the land or reservation:
Place of work Position or responsibilities
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2.5 SEARCHING DOCUMENTS – See our user guide on how to Search for Documents on our website.
2.6 MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE – Here you can find Trusts, Incorporations, Māori Reservations and others, and
it will show you:
• The overview of the organisation’s management structure
• Members of the trust etc
• Ownership details
• Contact details for the Administrator...
As additional decisions are added, users will
also be able to track cases as they progress through
appellate review, ensuring continuity and trans-
parency across judicial processes.
All reserved decisions of the MLC and MAC
- excluding oral judgments delivered in court - are
now routinely published.
Where both limbs of the test have been satisfied invariably the Court will make an appointment in accordance with the wishes of the beneficial owners, or in a case of a Māori reservation trust, the beneficiaries. That seems simple enough.
At the end of the hearing, the judge may:
• make the order you were seeking
• adjourn the hearing to another date and, in some cases,
another Court, if more information or evidence is needed
• reserve their decision – they will put your case aside to be
considered, and issue a written decision, at a later date
• dismiss your application – this means the judge will not
make the order you were seeking.
Land (other than Māori customary land and Crown land reserved for Māori)
that has not been alienated from the Crown for a subsisting estate in fee simple.
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