Factsheet Simple and uncontested succession applications web version
Succession is the legal transfer of interests or shares in Māori land from a person who has passed away to the people who are legally entitled to own those interests.
Succession is the legal transfer of interests or shares in Māori land from a person who has passed away to the people who are legally entitled to own those interests.
The goal is to replace as many deceased persons on the list with living successors to enable meetings of successors to be called under Part 9 of TTWMA.
Ngā utu whakawā ki tētahi tangata, ki tētahi kāhui tāngata rānei i whiwhi ai i te Tahua Āwhina Motuhake Costs against a person or class of persons in receipt of Special Aid 25.
Documents/Practice-notes/2023.10.17-MLC-Special-Aid-Practice-Note-FINAL.pdf (367 kb)
A person(s) bound to deal with property on behalf of the owners or beneficiaries.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)
The person or object is thus removed from the sphere of the profane and put into the sphere of the sacred.
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)
The Level 2 protocol for the Māori Land Court was released on 13 May 2020 and provided that the judiciary would continue to determine applications on the papers where possible, and hearings by way of by telephone conference, zoom and AVL would be preferred to in-person hearings. 4 Where in-person hearings are scheduled, there will be a series of measures to ensure the safety of participants, and compliance with social distancing hygiene restrictions.
Te mahi me te kore whai hua ki a koe Act without personal profit You can’t benefit personally from being a trustee.
Checklist of documents required (if applicable and available) • List of owners present at the gathering • Statement setting out how the alienee is a member of one of the preferred classes of alienees, including any necessary whakapapa details • Roll valuation or special valuation of the land and any improvements to it by a registered valuer • Minutes of the meeting or, if no minutes were kept, a statement of the pertinent issues discussed at the meeting, including— • every proposal put to t...
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-33-Confirmation-of-resolution.pdf (108 kb)
Any owner or interested person may use this form to apply to the Court to call or direct the Registrar to call a meeting of assembled owners for any Māori Freehold land or General Land owned by Māori to consider 1 or more resolutions for those matters set out in section 172 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (attached as a schedule to this form) Office use: Application: ACCEPTED / REFUSED Dated: ..............................................................
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-32-Application-to-call-meeting.pdf (90 kb)
There will be set-backs. For me personally, there were times in my legal career when I wanted to toss it in.