When you submit an application, you’ll need to include information about the trust and trustees. The Court will review:
day-to-day management of the trust
financial management of the trust
documentation of the trust, and
the terms of the trust.
The MLC operates under the provisions of Te Ture Whenua
Māori Act 1993 (‘the Act’).
The regulations referred to in this factsheet are contained in
the Māori Reservations Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’).
(k) Landowner(s): [insert the names of the owners of the Parent Block or
the name of the existing management structure (in the case of a trust, name the
current trustees, followed by “as trustees of the [name of trust]”)]
(l) Maximum Occupants: [Twelve (12)] people.
The reforms enacted in the Burial and Cremation Act 1964 retained this basic structure but further entrenched the role of local authorities by extinguishing the right of other entities, such as trusts, to open new public cemeteries.
Te Ture Take Māori 1953, me te Ture
Whenua Māori Act 1993
Ko te tiaki whenua ahu whenua te
whakakapinga o te wāhanga kaitiaki 438,
arā, te wāhanga 438 trust i raro i te Māori
Affairs Act 1953.
See also Ngawaka v Ngāti Rehua-Ngātiwai ki Aotea Trust Board (No 2) [2021] NZHC 291 at [43]–[47] and [58]
45 statutes referencing tikanga include the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (see s 2 definitions of “tikanga Māori” and “mana
tamaiti (tamariki)”); Resource Management Act 1991; and Taumata Arowai–the Water Services Regulator Act 2020.
The Act now
enables trusts to grant leases and occupation licenses for the
purposes of education, health or papakāinga housing for a
period of more than 14 years.
Ngā puka taupānga me te puka Tarahiti
Succession and Trust application forms
External link
Form 20: Certificate by administrator
Rule 10.2(3), Sections 111 or 113
(PDF 85 kb)
External link
Form 21: Succession (grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(2)(a), Sections 113 and 117
(PDF 865 kb)
External link
Form 22: Succession (no grant of administration)
Rule 10.2(1),(2), Sections 113 and 118
(PDF 617 kb)
External link
Form 23: Application for whāna...
