Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Rating of Māori freehold land - Enforcement of charging orders

111: Māori Land Court may make order for payment

You could also call this:

"Māori Land Court can order payment of unpaid rates from trust money"

The Māori Land Court can make an order for payment if you have unpaid rates. This happens when the court has already made a charging order under section 101. The local authority must ask the court to make this order.

The court must check if there is someone responsible for paying the rates before making an order. You will get a notice if the local authority asks the court to make an order for payment. This notice tells you what is happening.

The court's order can say that money held in trust for you must be used to pay your unpaid rates. This money is used to pay the rates that the charging order is about. The court makes this order to help pay your unpaid rates.

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Part 4Rating of Māori freehold land
Enforcement of charging orders

111Māori Land Court may make order for payment

  1. If the Māori Land Court has made a charging order under section 101, the court may, on application from the local authority, make an order for the payment of unpaid rates by the Māori Trustee or any other person who holds, or is entitled to receive, on trust for the owners of the land, any money derived from the land.

  2. Before making an order under subsection (1), the court must be satisfied that there is a person liable for the satisfaction of the charging order and must give notice to that person of the application by the local authority for an order for payment under subsection (1).

  3. An order made under subsection (1) may require any money that is held in trust for the liable person to be applied in payment of the rates to which the charging order relates.