However, the trustees must have the power to grant
licences to occupy in their trust order. The trust order may
also limit who may apply and impose any conditions.
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Māori Land Update
Block and trust information
Māori Incorporation Register Māori Land Update
Our Māori Land Update is released annually and provides:
the number of customary and freehold titles of Māori land
the number and types of management structures and the size of the land they are responsible for managing.
You can contact any office of the court to seek
copies; however, if these are not available in the
court’s document management system, you will need
to contact the office in which those records are
located so they can review the physical file and
where possible copy the physical record.
S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,136.458.
Land Interest Trusts
S The total number of Whānau Trusts nationally is 12,247
S The total number of Kaitiaki Trusts nationally is 2,459
Exclusion list
The following land types have been excluded from this update:
S Crown Land, Crown Land Reserved for Māori, Other, General Land owned by Māori (a total of 450 blocks covering an
area of 23,452.1288 ha)
S Blocks pending internal re...