TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI
TUHINGA ĀRAHI – NAMA PŪTEA MĀ WHENUA MĀORI
PRACTICE NOTE FOR LENDING ON WHENUA MĀORI
29 February 2024
Hei tīmatanga kōrero
Introduction
1. This practice note has been issued as a guide to assist landowners, lawyers and the
banking sector with lending against Māori freehold land (“whenua Māori”).
The unengaged owners are not the problem the report imagines
For a significant number of blocks of multiply-owned Māori land today, the engaged
owners are a minority of the owners.
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HE WHAKAŪ I TE TATŪNGA O TE HUIHUINGA Ā-KAIPUPURI
CONFIRMATION OF RESOLUTION OF ASSEMBLED OWNERS
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993
Sections 151 and 175
For more information visit www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz
Form 33
Rule 11.20
WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR?
Secondly, their refinements to this structure, after many meetings, has created a model which better represents the grassroots “ownership” of the block. 1) The standard structure is the same:
The ahu whenua trustees are the legal “owners” of the block in dealings with third parties and must ensure compliance with the district plan, payment of local body rates etc and are responsible for the block’s services, access etc.
TAKE NOTICE that Philip Seymour has made application to the Māori Land Court at Te
Waipounamu for a meeting of assembled owners seeking a partition of the Otonga 3 block.
The block is situated on Rēkohu/Wharekauri/Chatham Islands.
Kia tirotiro koe i te whakarāpopototanga, panuku whakararo ka
pāwhiri i te “Continue”.
Hātepe 11
Ināianei, kei te whārangi Declaration, me tuku i tō waitohu matihiko.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP5 3:00 PM AP-20260000006430 338(12)/93,
338(14)/93
Kodi Minnell on
behalf of Ngā
Hau E Whā
Māori
Reservation
Trustees
He whakawehenga I te katoa o ngā
poraka whenua o Lots 1, 2, 4 and 5
of Deposited Plan 105201 hei
whenua Papakāinga
Setting apart Lots 1, 2, 4 and 5 of
Deposited Plan 105201 blocks as a
Papakāinga
These funds may include rental income or dividends from the land blocks.
Lifetime right
Sections 116 and 109AA of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993
The Court can make an order for a whāngai and/or spouse to succeed to a lifetime right.