If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of January 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
On this page Apply to review or make changes to your trust Apply to change trustees Apply to review or make changes to your trust Te arotake i tō tarahiti (utu tāpae $68) Review your trust (filing fee $68) Trusts should be reviewed regularly to ensure they are operating according to the trust order and that the trustees are working to a high standard.
Copies are available from any Māori Land Court office (see page 9 for your nearest office). Note that Māori reservations are different to Māori reserves.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
I stress that a whānau trust is designed to manage specified shares in Māori land, it facilitates the bringing together of interests for the benefit of descendants and most importantly is a valuable tool to prevent ongoing fragmentation or, more correctly, fractionalisation of shares.
Māori freehold land is owned in common in unequal shares. This means that each owner owns each piece of the land in that share.
Appeals – access to Māori land If a water service provider wants to enter Māori land to carry out infrastructure work, they must ask for the landowner’s permission in writing at least 30 working days before they plan to enter.
Records Preservation Officers have carried out an extensive programme of work to identify, list and repackage into appropriate containers, the large quantities of records held by the Court.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
