Making submissions to Parliament
The following Bills are currently before Parliament and come within the responsibility of the Māori Affairs portfolio.
Last updated: 01 October 2008
The Māori Trustee and Māori Development Amendment Bill was introduced on the 23rd of November 2007. The Bill set out changes arising out of the review of the Māori Trustee. View archive material on the Māori Trustee and Māori Development Amendment Bill as originally introduced.
The Māori Affairs Committee divided the Bill into two Bills and reported back on both Bills on the 4th September 2008.
The two Bills are summarised below.
The Māori Trustee Amendment Bill (No 181-2A) sets up the Māori Trustee as a stand-alone organisation included on the 4th schedule of the Public Finance Act 1989. The Bill also makes changes to the way in which payments on funds held in trust in the Common Fund are paid, so that they better reflect what the Māori Trustee earns in the investment of these funds.
View the fulltext of the Māori Trustee Amendment Bill, as reported back by the Māori Affairs Committee.
The Māori Trustee Amendment Bill had its second reading on 1 April 2009. The Bill was considered by the Committee of the Whole House on 29 April and 5 May 2009. The Bill received its third and final reading on 7 May 2009. The Māori Trustee will become a stand alone entity, separate from Te Puni Kōkiri, on 1 July 2009.
The Māori Trustee and Māori Development Amendment Bill (No 181-2) sets up a new statutory corporation with the title Māori Business Aotearoa New Zealand (MBANZ) to further Māori economic development by utilising resources available to Māori.
View the fulltext of the Māori Trustee and Māori Development Amendment Bill, as reported back by the Māori Affairs Committee.
The Waka Umanga (Māori Corporations) Bill provides for the establishment of new legal entities to meet the organisational needs of tribal groups and other Māori associations that manage communal assets.
The Māori Affairs Committee has completed its consideration of this Bill and reported it back to the House on 8 September 2008 with amendments. The majority of the Māori Affairs Committee recommended that the purpose of the Bill be amended to provide basic and adaptable requirements for the incorporation, organisation, and operation of waka umanga on behalf of Māori collectives and define the relationship between waka umanga, governors, and the Māori collective. The Committee also recommended that provisions for legitimate representative status be removed from the Bill.
The Bill is currently on the order paper awaiting its second reading.
View the full text of the Māori Affairs Committee’s report on the Waka Umanga (Māori Corporations) Bill.
See archive material on the Waka Umanga (Māori Corporations) Bill as originally introduced.
This Bill vests the fee simple estate in the Southern Arikikapakapa Reserve, the Whakarewarewa Thermal Springs Reserve and the Roto-a-Tamaheke Reserve, which are currently vested in the Crown, in a joint trust established by Ngāti Whakaue and Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao, subject to certain terms and conditions.
Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao and the Te Pūmautanga trustees (on behalf of the Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi/Hapū) entered into a deed with the Crown, dated 5 August 2008, providing for the transfer of the Whakarewarewa Valley Land and the Roto-a-Tamaheke Reserve. This Bill effects that transfer.
Submissions on the Whakarewarewa and Roto-a-Tamaheke Vesting Bill have now closed. The Māori Affairs Committee have considered the submissions and are scheduled to report the Bill back on 30 June 2009.
View the full text of the Whakarewarewa and Roto-a-Tamaheke Vesting Bill
For further information on any of the Bills or to make an enquiry, please email tpkbills@tpk.govt.nz.
Last modified: 10/04/2008