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Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 gives the Māori Land Court the jurisdiction to consider this claim. [6] Without limiting any rights of the High Court to make determinations, the Māori Land Court may declare the particular status of any land. [7] For the purposes of the act, all New Zealand land has one of six statuses: Māori customary land
In 1993, the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act [9] expanded the court's jurisdiction to allow it to hear cases on all matters related to Māori land. In 2012, the Māori Land Court minute books dating between 1862 and 1900, held at the Archives New Zealand National Office in Wellington, were included as an entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register .
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 ...
On 18 November 2004, the New Zealand Parliament passed a law which deems the title to be held by the Crown. This law, the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, was enacted on 24 November 2004. Some sections of the act came into force on 17 January 2005. It was repealed and replaced by the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011.
Foreshore and seabed, Aboriginal title, Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 Ngati Apa v Attorney-General was a landmark legal decision that sparked the New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy . The case arose from an application by eight northern South Island iwi for orders declaring the foreshore and seabed of the Marlborough Sounds Maori ...
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In 1962, the council was created by the Maori Welfare Act. [1] The act was renamed to the Maori Community Development Act by the 1979 Maori Purposes Act. [2] [3] The council often acts as the legal entity representing groups of iwi and hapū, and offers a forum for them to act collectively. [4] [5] [6]
Ahi kā or Ahi kaa (burning fires) is a principle in Māori culture, referring to take whenua (land rights) through visible occupation and use of land. Ahi kā is one of the traditional means to establish mana whenua (authority over land). Extensive continuous occupation is referred to as Aki kā roa.