New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

5A Fees payable to Maori Trustee

• Subject to the provisions of section 48 of the Maori Trustee Act 1953, in respect of the matters specified in this regulation the Maori Trustee shall be entitled to charge such reasonable fee as he considers appropriate in the circumstances having regard to the nature of the work and the time involved in it:

  • (a) conveyancing work performed by solicitors employed in the Maori Trust Office:

  • (b) the execution by the Maori Trustee of a memorial of charge or the discharge thereof:

  • (c) the production of titles:

  • (d) the giving of consent by the Maori Trustee to any plan of subdivision:

  • (e) the giving of consent by the Maori Trustee as lessor or mortgage in relation to leasehold transactions:

  • (f) the services of the Maori Trustee in clearing or otherwise putting in order the title to any land:

    Provided that no fee shall be payable in any case where the Maori Trustee is acting as the agent of the owners under Part 23 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 in the disposition of the land by way of sale:

  • (g) the administration of any sinking fund created for the purposes of meeting compensation for improvements, the fee to be taken on the termination of the sinking fund:

  • (h) the preparation and filing of any record touching the state and condition of any land subject to a lease and of the particulars of any improvement made or to be made thereon.

  Regulation 5A: inserted, on 28 November 1985, by regulation 2(1) of the Maori Trust Office Regulations 1954, Amendment No 10 (SR 1985/291).