A whānau trust was formed at that stage with myself and two cousins being appointed as trustees. Initial lands vested into the whānau trust came from the uncle who had been appointed as the whānau administrator in 1967.
Some people become landowners when a whānau member transfers land to them by gift or sale. The Maori Land Court will ‘vest’ the land interest by way of a vesting order.
Important Note: If an undivided interest in land i.e. shares in a block is being transferred, section 148 of the Act requires the transferee to be a member of the preferred classes of alienees which comprise – • A child or remoter issue of the transferor. • Whanaunga who are associated in accordance with tikanga Māori with the land. • An owner in the land who is a member of the hapü associated with the land. • A trustee of a person belonging to 1 to 3 above. • A de...
Dated: / / Page 13 For m ore inform ation visit w w w .m āorilandcourt.govt.nz M LC 07/25 - 21 SCH ED U LE 1 – EN TITLEM EN T TO D ECEA SED ’S IN TERESTS U N D ER TERM S O F A W ILL Land / Block Shares to be vested Proportion to be vested Name and address of beneficiary Releationship to deceased Page 14 For more information visit www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz MLC 07/25 - 21 MĀORI LAND COURT CONTACT DETAILS This application may be lodged w...
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-21-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (510 kb)
Additional interests 7 7.3 If, after the constitution of this Trust, any additional Māori land interests are vested in the name of any person who has vested Māori land interests into this Trust, those additional interests shall be included as Trust Property of this Trust by application to the Court by the Registrar without notice to the Beneficiaries.
Ngā kaiwhaipānga Beneficiaries Beneficiaries are the people who benefit from any development(s) from a trust or block of land. Ngā tukunga Vest/vested Vest/vested is when a legal change of ownership from one person to another is made.
A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest the ownership and its associated rights (land may be vested in a trustee, or shares may be vested in another person). 13.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 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)
Under s 23 of the 1865 Act the Court could vest blocks of land in tribes, but only if the block was larger than 5,000 acres.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Comment Box While the land and any other property vested in the trust is held and used for the benefit of the beneficial owners, the beneficial owners are not the legal owners.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)
