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Applying for succession
Succession application types
Succession and whāngai
Succession with no living descendants
Succession with a living husband, wife, or partner Māori freehold land can be owned by one owner or several owners and in some cases, there might be hundreds of owners in one block or title of land.
Land management structure details
Other statistics
S Blocks with a land management structure have an average size of 108.55 ha and average 211 beneficial owners.
S Blocks without a land management structure have an average size of 12.88 ha and average 41 owners.
The Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025
introduces new provisions that allow owners of Māori
land and water service providers to appeal to the
Māori Land Court over decisions about access to Māori
land for water infrastructure.
...APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF STATUS FROM MĀORI LAND TO GENERAL LAND
Section 135, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993
For more information visit www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz
Form 24A
Rule 11.2(5)(a)
For more information visit www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz
/ owners give notice to the preferred class of That change of status cannot proceed unless the owner
alienees (select one)
That land or any interest in that land is / is not subject to a trust (select one)
The details...
SP8 3:00 PM AP-20230000022135 18(1)(a)/93
328/93
Catherine
Thomas
Wharekauri 1A2 - Determination of
ownership of a dwelling and
occupation order in favour of Te
Puna Aroha Mokopuna Whānau
Trust
SP9 3:15 PM AP-20250000011258 289/93 Carol Power He wāwāhanga ki te poraka o
Otonga 3
Partitioning Otonga 3
SP10 3:15 PM AP-20250000011260 151/93 Deputy
Registrar
Otonga 3 - Confirmation of resolution
of assembled owners
SP11 3:15 PM AP-20240000009207 181/93 Phil...
Hātepe 6
Ina kite koe i te ingoa kaipupuri tika e whakaaturia ana ki te wāhi Search results, pāwhiria te
nama i te tīwae Owner name kia huaki ai te whārangi mōhiohio kaipupuri.
HOW TO FILE AND COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION FORM
(i) This form must be accompanied with the
appropriate application fee (if any) and may be
filed at any office of the Court
(ii) Please ensure that all information required on the
form is completed;
(iii) Where tick boxes are provided please
ensure you tick all those boxes that apply to your
application, unless you are required to select one
box, then only select the box that applies;
(iv) You must supply a list of Respondents and/or
affecte...
External link
Māori Assembled Owners Regulations 1995
Sets out the rules on how a meeting of owners of Māori land must be held, how it is recorded and how the outcomes are reported.
General powers of Trustees
1.3 The Trustees have the following general powers:
(a) all the powers necessary to manage the Trust Property including, in relation to
the Trust Property, all the powers of an absolute owner of the property; and
(b) all the powers necessary to carry out the terms of the Trust, including powers
incidental to those in paragraph (a).
This data provides a high-level summary to share with owners,
organisations, and government agencies key characteristics of Māori Customary and Māori Freehold Land.
