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Download the application form Finances and mortgages
Māori land can be used to secure finance or a mortgage just like any other interest in land.
Most of the land set aside under the Act was transferred to the intended beneficiaries, but in 1909 the SILNA Act was repealed by the Native Lands Act before all the grants had been completed. 6 Also, the lands set aside under SILNA were of inferior quality, isolated, inaccessible, and often far distant from the traditional lands that had been taken under the earlier Crown purchasing. 7 Four of the SILNA blocks were not allocated and remain in Crown ownershi...
Ngā tono $68
$68 applications
Succession to Māori landTransfer of shares in Māori land
Establishment of a trust over Māori land
Adding, reducing, or removing trustees of a trust which manages Māori land
Determining the ownership of structures on Māori land
Occupation of Māori land
Ngā tono $228
$228 applications
Partition, subdivision, amalgamation and aggregation of Māori land
Anything related to a Māori incorpora...
Use this form to seek Court confirmation of an instrument or agreement of sale or gift of Māori Land;
or to confirm a resolution of assembled owners to transfer Māori Land by way of sale or gift.
In his classic book Māori Land Tenure
(1977) Sir Hugh Kawharu wrote that the system
of Māori land tenure created by the Native Lands
Act of 1865 was an ‘engine of destruction for
any tribe’s tenure of land, anywhere’ (p 15).
This application will determine who is entitled to receive the land interests and the judge/registrar will provide an order transferring the interests to them.
