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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
From 1932 to 1990, the Department of Māori Affairs had an annual award, the Ahuwhenua Trophy, celebrating the best Māori farmers in Aotearoa. [1] [4] The award was established by politician Āpirana Ngata, as a way to promote European-style farming methods among traditional farmers, and improve the economic prosperity of Māori. [4]
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 ...
The Māori Land Court (Māori: Te Kōti Whenua Māori) is the specialist court of record in New Zealand that hears matters relating to Māori land.. Established in 1865 as the Native Land Court, its purpose was to translate customary communal landholdings into individual titles recognisable under English law.
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]
This Act empowered the Māori Trustee to convert any outstanding fixed term leases to leases in perpetuity. The legislation continued to allowed to Māori Trustee to acquire uneconomical interests or purchase any interest that the beneficiary or beneficiaries in question wished to sell, and to sell that land under such terms as the Trustee saw fit.
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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.