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Māori land trusts are a type of legal governance structure [3] by which multiple owners of Māori land can manage their land. Under any trust, whether a Māori land trust or a private family trust, one or more people – the "trustees" – are the legal owners of the land or other property, but they have a special obligation to look after this ...
The Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011 replaced the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, which was introduced by the Fifth Labour Government. [11] Māori Party co-leader Dame Tariana Turia, who left Labour and established the Māori Party largely as a response to the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, [12] began the third reading of the Bill in the House of Representatives on 24 March 2011.
The Maori Land Court and Land Boards, 1909 to 1952. (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal). Richard Boast (1999). Maori Land Law. (Wellington: Butterworths). Dean Cowie. (1996). Land Alienations via the Native Land Court from 1866 to 1873. In Rangahaua Whanui District 11B: Hawke's Bay (pp. 61–136). (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal). Retrieved from ...
In New Zealand, Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993/Maori Land Act 1993 puts restrictions on alienation of land owned by a Māori person, or by a group which is predominantly Māori. Sections 146 and 147 of the Act force an owner of Māori land who wishes to alienate their interest in the land to give right of first refusal to people belonging to ...
It was the Tribunal's first 'whole-of-government' inquiry, and considers more than 20 government departments and agencies, and makes recommendations as to reforms of "laws, policies or practices relating to health, education, science, intellectual property, indigenous flora and fauna, resource management, conservation, the Māori language, arts ...
As a result of the Tribunal's report into the claim, in 1987 the government made Te Reo Māori an official language of New Zealand, and established the Maori Language Commission to foster it. The pivotal issue considered by the Tribunal was whether a language could be considered a "treasure" or "taonga", and thus protected by the Treaty.
The Writers Guild of America has blacklisted Village Roadshow, prohibiting its members from working with the company after it refused to pay a number of its writers, Variety has confirmed. “It ...
The Māori Land Court determined that it could consider the issue, but was overruled by the High Court. On 19 June 2003, New Zealand's Court of Appeal ruled in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General, amongst other matters, that: "The definition of 'land' in Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 did not necessarily exclude foreshore and seabed"; [2]