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Step 1: Inform whānau of your plans
Step 2: Organise a hui
Step 3: Hold a hui
Step 4: Reach agreement
Step 5: Submit an application
Interest based trusts
Land based trusts and incorporations Step 1: Inform whānau of your plans
You will need to have a conversation with your whānau to advise them of your plans to set up a trust or an incorporation.
There are two types of grant: (a) Where a person dies leaving a valid will, a grant
of probate may be made to the executor(s) named in the will (although in rare
cases, formal administration may be granted to someone other than the named
executors); (b) Where a person dies intestate (without a will), a grant of letters of
administration is obtained.
5. A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest ownership and
its associated rights.
Other helpful sources
• searching Pātaka Whenua
• contacting the other landowners
• contacting Te Puni Kōkiri
• visiting your local council website
Notes
Where to get help
https://www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz/en/contact-us/our-offices
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[Name of block]
A meeting of owners is called for the above-named block:
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The making of a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner against a judge
does not of itself serve to disqualify the judge from hearing cases involving the
complainant.
5. If, after considering all relevant circumstances, there is doubt about whether there
may properly be an appearance of bias, it may be prudent for the judge to decline
to sit in that case.
In the Waitangi Tribunal, the panel can have regard
to and adopt such aspects of marae kawa as the Tribunal thinks appropriate. (Sch. 2 cl 5(9) of
the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975). This may result in some restrictions on where and what part
of the proceedings can be covered by the media.
You can submit your application several ways:
Online – Pātaka Whenua
• Visit Pātaka Whenua through the Māori Land Court website, www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz
• You can apply as:
• a registered user – where you can create, save, submit applications, pay fees, and track
progress
• a guest user – where you submit your applications without creating an account
• In person
• bring your documents to your nearest Māori Land Court office
• Email or post
• email or post your application...
In the context of a trust, it is the concept of several people,
collectively, filling a basket by contributing communally with money and other
assets.
5. In the context of a trust, a trustee or guardian of a minor or person unable for
any reason to fully manage their own affairs.
