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:
o a registered user – where you can create, save, submit applications, pay fees, and track
progress
o 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
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Notice of intention to appear
If you wish to be heard on this application, you should notify the applicant and the Māori Land Court office in your
district.
Fee: $ 70.00
NOTE: Information provided in all applications forms part of the Court’s permanent record under rule 7.19 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011.
Fee: $ 24.00
NOTE: Information provided in all applications forms part of the Court’s permanent record under rule 7.19 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011.
Māori Land Court application guides
To support you through the application process, four plain-language application guides have been developed:
How to apply for succession
How to apply for Partition of Māori freehold land
How to constitute a whānau trust
How to constitute an ahu whenua trust or whenua tōpū trust
These new guides are designed to help you identify the right application to make, understand where to begin, and prepare all the info...
Step 3- Determination by the Māori Land Court
(h) If mediation does not resolve the dispute, or the mediation is not completed
within the stated timeframe for Step 2, then the parties may file relevant
applications with the Māori Land Court.
Water services application types
Appeals to Māori Land Court - for issues about access to Māori land to work on water infrastructure
This kind of appeal is different from appealing orders made by the Māori Land Court.
Apply online
Download the application form Land based trusts and incorporations
Tarati ahu whenua
Ahu Whenua trust
An ahu whenua trust enables collective guardianship of one or more land blocks on behalf of landowners.
