MOJ0217.7E SEP21 Succession Factsheet
An administrative structure similar to a company for managing Māori land vested in it by the Māori Land Court. 12.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.7E-SEP21-Succession-Factsheet.pdf (362 kb)
An administrative structure similar to a company for managing Māori land vested in it by the Māori Land Court. 12.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.7E-SEP21-Succession-Factsheet.pdf (362 kb)
The owner of a beneficial interest in land. Where land is vested in trustees, the trustees own the land as legal owners on behalf of the beneficiaries.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
I am an administrator/We are administrators* of this estate.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-21-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (865 kb)
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)
This form may be used by the executor(s)/administrator(s) of an estate to certify those persons entitled to the Māori freehold land interests held by the estate, and/or in the case of a deceased Māori, any General Land intrests.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-20-Certificate-by-administrator.pdf (85 kb)
A whānau trust was formed at that stage with myself and two cousins being appointed as trustees. Initial lands vested into the whānau trust came from the uncle who had been appointed as the whānau administrator in 1967.
Which are as follows: Ahu Whenua trusts, which are land management trusts designed to promote the use and administration of the lands on behalf of the owners.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
FRAGMENTATION/FRAGMENTING Fragmentation occurs when a person’s shares in land are divided amongst other people. GENERAL LAND Land that is not Māori land (either Māori Freehold Land or Māori Customary Land) and which is not Crown Land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
This is the reason why the Māori Freehold Land Registration project was so important. The project was a joint one involving the Māori Land Court administration, LINZ and a sector sometimes forgotten in the literature on the project, the Māori Land Court judiciary.
If the will includes provisions for Māori land interests and who they should be left to, the administrators of the estate can complete a certificate by administrator.