For more information,
please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.
Individual districts may mail out separate Pänui where 14
clear days notice is not provided in the National Pänui / Te
Pänui ä Motu.
For more information,
please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.
Individual districts may mail out separate Pänui where 14
clear days notice is not provided in the National Pänui / Te
Pänui ä Motu.
For more information,
please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.
Individual districts may mail out separate Pänui where 14
clear days notice is not provided in the National Pänui / Te
Pänui ä Motu.
For more information,
please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.
Individual districts may mail out separate Pänui where 14
clear days notice is not provided in the National Pänui / Te
Pänui ä Motu.
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The Māori Land Court of New Zealand / The Māori Appellate Court of New Zealand
(Please select the name of the Māori Land Court District in which the application was lodged)
Please select one District Taitokerau Waikato-Maniapoto Waiariki
Tairāwhiti Tākitimu Aotea Te Waipounamu
APPLICATION NUMBER: ....................................................................................................................................................................
Apply online Download the application form Subdivision
A private subdivision of whenua may be made, without lodging an application with the Māori Land Court, if:
all the legal owners agree to the subdivision (where there is no trust)
all the trustees agree to the subdivision (where the land is vested in trustees)
the management committee of a Māori incorporation agrees (where the land is vested in a Māori incorporation)
the new titles, issued...
Where the relevant tikanga does not recognise a relationship
that entitles whāngai to succeed, the Māori Land Court may
issue a court order giving whāngai a lifetime right to receive
income or grants from the land or the right to occupy the
family home on the land, or both.
Whenua Māori held by a Māori land trust
3. Where the title to the land is vested in a Māori land trust (e.g. an Ahu Whenua Trust or a
Whānau Trust) the trustees can approve a mortgage against the land subject to any
restrictions in the trust order (ss 147 and 150A of the Act)
This form may be used by the executor(s)/administrator(s) of an estate to certify those persons entitled to the Māori
freehold land interests held by the estate, and/or in the case of a deceased Māori, any General Land intrests.