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If your land becomes landlocked (surrounded by other land that prevents access), you'll need to negotiate and formalise reasonable access with the surrounding property owners. If you’re unable to reach an agreement with them, you can apply to the Court grant reasonable access.

Located in:  Māori land Use your land

Apply online Download the application form Wāwāhanga tōpū (utu tāpae $228) Combined partition (filing fee $228) A combined partition combines multiple pieces of land to form one block, which can then be re-divided amongst existing owners. You can combine Māori land, general land, or both, regardless of size, shape, location, or status.

Located in:  Māori land Use your land

This may help you and other landowners decide on future development or use of your whenua. If you’re making a whenua timeline you can access historical information of that whenua as recorded in the Māori Land Court (or our predecessor, the Native Land Court).

Located in:  The court record

When the life tenant dies or re-marries, their life interest ends, and the estate passes to the next-of-kin of the person from whom the interest came (usually their children).

Located in:  Māori land

 In most cases, this will be from a parent or grandparent or someone you’re related to by blood.

Located in:  Māori land Becoming a landowner

A committee member who is due to retire from the committee is automatically nominated for re-election unless that person declines the nomination at least seven clear days before the meeting.

Uploads/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)

This type of trust is also used for receiving Crown land as part of any treaty of Waitangi claim settlement or for the re-vesting Māori Land Court Retention and Disposal Schedule Appraisal Report 21 public works land in collective rather than individual ownership.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)

A committee member who is due to retire from the committee is automatically nominated for re-election unless that person declines the nomination at least seven clear days before the meeting.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)

A committee member who is due to retire from the committee is automatically nominated for re-election unless they decline the nomination at least seven clear days before the meeting.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)

This should be done by the trustee or the person the trust was created for, when they’re able to do so. Apply online Download the application form Tarati pūtea (utu tāpae $68) Pūtea trust (filing fee $68) A pūtea trust allows people who own small interests in Māori land to pool their interests together for the benefit of their wider whānau and descendants.

Located in:  Māori land Manage your land