Metadata
Title: National Register of Māori Incorporations for New Zealand
Date of data: 30 June 2025
Published by: Office of the Chief Registrar, Māori Land Court, Ministry of Justice, Wellington
Email: te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz
URL: Māori land data | Māori Land Court (xn--morilandcourt-wqb.govt.nz)
Release Notes: The information contained in this spreadsheet is a snapshot of data from Pātaka Whanau of the Māori Land Court, New Zealand
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The trustee becomes the legal owner when the order appointing them as trustee
for the land is registered against the title. The beneficiaries are called the beneficial
owners.
2.
Pātaka Whenua
Our online portal
Visit Pātaka Whenua to find information about your whenua, search the court record, or send us an application or enquiry.
If death has been established at a previous hearing a further death
certificate may not be required.
2 Names of immediate family members
The information provided in question 5 helps the Court to search for land interests—any additional whakapapa
could help the Court in its search.
3 Next of kin
Where there is no will, next of kin for the purposes of succession are children of the deceased.
You can submit your application online in Pātaka Whenua. You can download and edit these PDF forms for the Māori Land Court and the Māori Appellate Court applications and email or mail them to us.
Hātepe 1
I tō pūtirotiro tukutuku, haere ki te paetukutuku a Te Kooti Whenua Māori
www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz ka pāwhiri i te ripa kākāriki kei te wāhanga matau o runga, arā
ko “Pātaka Whenua – our online portal”.
Te Āhei Atu ki Pātaka Whenua
https://www.maorilandcourt.govt.nz/
2 māorilandcourt.govt.nz
Hātepe 1
Kia huakina te tomokanga o Pātaka Whenua, pāwhiria te “Register”, “Create account” rānei.
HE TĪWHIRI MŌ NGĀ PAEARU RAPU
Hātepe 4
Kia tāuru koe i ō paearu rapu, pāwhiria te “Search”.
Hātepe 5
Panuku whakararo i te whārangi kia kitea ai ngā Search results.
Ki te rapu anake
i te Takiwā Paraka, Rōpū Kaipupuri, Momo Kaipupuri rānei, me te kore e tāuru ingoa, pūtautohu
rānei, ka puta ko ngā hua rapu maha.
3 māorilandcourt.govt.nz
Hātepe 4
Kia tāuru koe i ō paearu rapu, pāwhiria te “Search”.
Hātepe 5
Panuku whakararo i te whārangi kia kitea ai ngā Search results.
Kōwhiria te tūnga tika hei āwhina ki te
whakawhāiti i ngā hua rapu.
3 māorilandcourt.govt.nz
Hātepe 4
Kia tāuru koe i ō paearu rapu, pāwhiria te “Search”.
Hātepe 5
Panuku whakararo i te whārangi kia kitea ai ngā Search results.
Information from Māori LandOnline also provides the names of various trustees of blocks in which we hold interests and contact has been made with some of them.
