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The Māori Trustee is a Corporation Sole established under the Māori Trustee Act 1953. The Māori Trust Office is a part of Te Puni Kōkiri.
The position of Māori Trustee is conferred on an officer of Te Puni Kōkiri by the Chief Executive of Te Puni Kōkiri, with the prior consent of the State Services Commissioner. There is no specified term of appointment. The Māori Trustee is currently John Paki, who is also General Manager of the Māori Trust Office.
The Māori Trustee’s functions and powers stem from the Māori Trustee Act 1953, the Trustee Act 1956 and from common law. The Māori Trustee operates under a wide range of Acts including Income Tax legislation and Te Ture Whenua.
Te Puni Kōkiri received $9.602 million departmental funding for the provision of services to the Māori Trustee in 2008/9, plus a transfer of $0.6 from 2007/08; for 2009/10 $10.004m, and 2010/11 $9.776m. Capital funding of $4.122m has been made available for this three year period.
The Vision statement of the Māori Trustee as an organisation is: Our People Their Future - Pupuritia te mana o te tangata o te whenua puta ki te ao mārama.
Its goals are:
The Māori Trustee’s focus is on the services and support to be provided to the trusts and beneficiaries now and in the future.
The Māori Trustee has started a three year process of transformation, to enhance the services provided and to ensure that systems, strategy and organisational capacity are directed to fulfilling the duties, obligations and opportunities of the Māori Trustee, con-sistent with the additional funding that was provided for this purpose in Budget 2008.
Legislative amendment before the House on the dissolution of Parliament proposes to modernise the way in which the Māori Trustee can operate as a stand-alone, independent organisation which is sustainable and vi-able, providing transparent and accountable services to the beneficiaries and trusts, clients and the Crown.
Last modified: 3/10/2008