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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 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.
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
The Native Lands Act 1865 was an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that was designed to remove land from Māori ownership for purchase by European settlers as part of settler colonisation. [1] The act established the Native Land Courts , individualised ownership interests in Māori land replacing customary communal ownership and allowed up to 5% ...
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 ...
Memorialised lands are lands owned, or formerly owned, by a State-owned enterprise or a tertiary institution, or former New Zealand Railways lands, that have a memorial (or notation) on their certificate of title advising that the Waitangi Tribunal may recommend that the land be returned to Māori ownership.
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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 customary land. [1]