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Land Transfer Act 2017

Land title and registration - Land title register - Joint tenancy

47: Registration of persons as joint tenants

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"Owning land together with others"

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When you are named with others in a document as owners of land, you are treated as joint tenants. This means you own the land together. You can find more information about Māori land in section 4 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993, but this rule does not apply to that type of land. If the document says something different, that is what counts. This rule does not apply to Māori land as defined in the Act.

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Land title register: Joint tenancy

47Registration of persons as joint tenants

  1. Two or more persons named in an instrument as transferees, mortgagees, or owners of an estate or interest in land must be treated as joint tenants.

  2. Subsection (1)—

  3. is subject to anything contrary in the instrument:
    1. does not apply to Māori land as defined in section 4 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993.

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