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Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
For more information, go to maorilandcourt.govt.nz
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court (MLC) is the
New Zealand Court that hears matters relating to Māori
land.
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.
The website also
contains a link to Māori Land Online, a tool
that provides web based information on
the current ownership and title information 1
for all Māori Land Court blocks.
Fourth And one of the funnier issues that it has thrown up for improvement, involves the appellations chosen for landblocks. Judges and Registrars past, have tended to default to surveyors over the names of newly created titles following partitions, consolidations, amalgamations or aggregations of Māori land.
The information
in this booklet does not apply to Māori reserves.
2
Māori reservation land
Any Māori freehold land or any general land 1
may be set aside as a Māori reservation.
Step 1
1.1 After logging into Pātaka Whenua as a registered user, on the left side click “Search” then “Block” – this will
take you to the Block Search
1.2 In the “BlockName” field, start typing the name of the block.
If the trustees acquire further land or other assets for the purposes of the trust, that land
becomes trust land, and the other assets become trust property.