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Metadata
Title: National List of MāoriLand in New Zealand
Date of data: 19 May 2023
Published by: Office of the Chief Registrar, MāoriLandCourt, Ministry of Justice, Wellington
Email: te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz
URI: Māoriland data | MāoriLandCourt (xn--morilandcourt-wqb.govt.nz)
Release Notes: The information contained in this spreadsheet is a snapshot of data from the MāoriLand Information System of...
In 2017, an application was made to the MāoriLandCourt to determine the
status of the land, the ownership of the land and the relative interests of the owners.
The MāoriLandCourt is conducting an
inquiry to establish the successors to SILNA lands pursuant to Section 29, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 in accordance
with an application filled by the Minister of Māori Affairs, currently under application A20180009373.
Where the title to the land is held by a Māoriland trust or a Māori Incorporation, the
mortgage has to be sent to the MāoriLandCourt’s Registrar for noting (ss 150A and
150B of the Act).
Former Chief MāoriLandCourt Judge, who then became a
Justice of the High Court, ET Durie provided the following analyses of the nature of Māori rights to land;
Maori see themselves not as masters of the environment but as
members of it.
The Act also refers to general land owned by Māori.
Whenua Māori korehere
Māori freehold landMāori freehold land has gone through the MāoriLandCourt (or what was known as the Native LandCourt) to be divided into blocks and converted into freehold titles.
Kaiwhakawā Wilson Isaac
Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Judge Wilson Isaac was appointed to the MāoriLandCourt on 11 March 1994, was appointed as Deputy Chief Judge of the MāoriLandCourt in 1999 and the Chief Judge of the MāoriLandCourt, and Chair of the Waitangi Tribunal on 13 August 2009.
