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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for an ownership
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 25 July 2024
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
ownership information.
Pātaka Whenua Guidance
Guest User Guide
Date produced: 14 August 2023
Last modified: 14 December 2023
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Guest User Guide
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
You do not need to register in Pātaka Whenua to be able to access information or make an application or enquiry.
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Search by Ownership
You can use the ownership search option if you know either the owner name, owner ID, block name, block ID, block
district, ownership category, ownership type, or a combination of the options.
Any other documents, plans, materials, or records that –
a) A Judge or Registrar considers necessary to preserve the Court’s historical record of title
and ownership; or
b) A Judge or Registrar considers necessary for the Court to function as a court of record;
or
c) Are required to be kept of maintained under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993; and
F.
CONSOLIDATION ORDERS
An order that combines several orders or other
documents that have changed ownership to update a list
of owners in the court’s database and/or the Toitū Te
Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) title
records
Section 218 Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.
The whenua was out of Māori hands
for generations. Now those descendants have come together to reconnect, with each
other, with their whakapapa, and with the whenua.
Full partition: check that your proposal
meets the requirements of the resource
Management act and check whether you
need a building permit.
7 A change of ownership of land gives the
recipient of that interest the ownership
and its associated rights.
Full partition: check that your proposal
meets the requirements of the resource
Management act and check whether you
need a building permit.
7 A change of ownership of land gives the
recipient of that interest the ownership
and its associated rights.
The titles remain separate, but there is only one common
ownership list for all aggregated land (refer to section 308 of Te Ture Whenua
Māori Act 1993).
5.