COMBINED PARTITION An owner or group of owners may benefit by combining their interests, held in two neighbouring blocks, into one block. For instance, they may own block A and also have an interest in block B.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
Former land owners become shareholders in the Incorporation rather than owners in the land. Māori incorporations are designed to manage whole blocks of land and are the most commercial of all Māori land management structures.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
The landowners become shareholders, and own shares in the incorporation rather than in an individual land block.
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This is important because there are numerous examples of Māori land trusts and incorporations that have flourished under the Act, which invites the questions: why have some Māori land blocks succeeded and others have not?
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
There are shareholdings in that block fractionated down to 4,000ths. The block itself is only about 5 hectares in size.
Kaporeihana whenua Incorporation Unlike trusts, a Māori incorporation is structured like a company and is governed by the Māori Incorporations Constitutions Regulations 1994 .
To transfer Māori incorporation shares, the transferor (the person transferring the shares) must file a transfer of shares form (form 5 of the Māori Incorporations Constitution Regulations 1994) with the secretary of the Māori incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.3E-OCT21-Transferring-Maori-Land-Shares.pdf (78 kb)
A sketch plan or plans providing the following information is enclosed: details of the parent block showing the boundaries of the existing title.
A mortgage or loan may be acquired by: the sole owner of a Māori land block all the owners of a Māori land block acting together the trustees of a Māori land block who are empowered to raise finance against the block, or a Māori Incorporation which holds Māori land.
