ISSN 2463-3763 (Online) www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz DESCRIPTION OF APPLICATION TYPES BY SECTION NATIONAL PĀNUI January | Kohi-tātea 2025 2 Summary of General Statutory Provisions The following table provides a brief description of the most common sections in this document.
Crown 2 land with historical, spiritual, or emotional significance to Māori can also be set aside.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
The underlying legal theory is referred to today as ‘Crown pre-emption’, and was reflected in Article 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi, local ordinances, and government land purchasing practice.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Ka āhei anō te whakataha whenua Karauna 2 mēnā ka whai wāriu hītori, wairua, ka ngākaunuitia rānei e te Māori.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-tereo.pdf (387 kb)
Those people are called successors 2 and the process is called succession. Successors are then entitled to make decisions about the use of that land for their benefit and for the benefit of future generations.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
Ko aua tāngata ka whiwhi nei ki ēnei hea ko ngā uri, ngā kaiwhiwhi 2, ko te tikanga tuku nei i ngā pānga whenua, ngā hea, ko te ‘Mana Tuku’.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-tereo.pdf (1.2 mb)
For 1 The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership rights. 2 The division of Māori land into two or more separate titles (partition).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Poutūterangi 2010 Nā Adrian Heke te whakaahua 2 Taitara 1 hanga tuarua me te whakahou Kei te wāhanga 288 o te Ture e whakatakoto ana ngā take hei titiro mā te Kooti Whenua Māori e pā ana ki te tono whakawehe 2, whakahono 3, me te whakakotahi 4.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-tereo.pdf (349 kb)
For information about granting confirmation of an instrument of alienation 1 or about transfers of whole blocks of Māori land, please contact a Māori Land Court office (see page 6 for your nearest office). 2 Use of vesting orders Except when Māori land 2 is vested 3 in a Māori incorporation 4, Māori land shares can only be transferred by a vesting order 5 made by the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Alienation involves an alienee (the person who purchases or receives the interest in the land) and an alienor (the person who sells or parts with the interest in the land). 2. Land whose beneficial ownership the Māori Land Court has determined by freehold order (that is, the Court has created a title for the land and determined the beneficial owners to that land).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.3E-OCT21-Transferring-Maori-Land-Shares.pdf (78 kb)
