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The Māori Land Court was established in 1865 as the Native Land Court of New Zealand under the Native Lands Act. [1] The court was established to facilitate the purchase of Māori land by the Crown by converting collectively owned Māori customary land into Māori freehold land. [2]
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act replaced the Maori Affairs Act 1953 [4] and is administered by Te Puni Kōkiri (the Ministry of Māori Development). [5] Under previous acts, like the Native Act 1894, any communally owned Māori land could be converted to freehold land (sometimes automatically).
The full title of the act is: "An Act to Amend and Consolidate the: Laws relating to Lands in the Colony in which· the Maori Proprietary Customs still exist and to provide for the ascertainment of the Titles to such Lands and for Regulating the Descent, thereof and for other purposes."
The New Zealand Government will honour all New Zealanders in the chieftainship of their land and all their property. Māori: Ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o o ratou whenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa. Article 3. All New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and duties.
A freehold, in common law jurisdictions or Commonwealth nations such as England and Wales, Australia, [1] Canada, Ireland, India and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode of ownership of real property, or land, [a] and all immovable structures attached to such land.
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 ...
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Applicants to the Māori Land Court could apply to have land vested in trustee ownership. The Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 introduced compulsory conversion of Māori freehold land with four or fewer owners into general land. It increased the powers of the Māori Trustee to compulsorily acquire and sell so-called uneconomic interests in ...