New Zealand Legislation: Acts

218 Maori community purposes

• (1) Where any income of a trust constituted under this Part is to be applied for Maori community purposes, the trustees may provide money for the benefit or advancement of any specified beneficiary, any class or classes of beneficiaries, or the interests of any hapu associated with any land belonging to the trust, and its members, whether directly or indirectly.

  (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), in any such case the trustees may from time to time, subject to the terms of the trust order, apply money towards all or any of the following purposes:

  • (a) the promotion of health—

    • (i) by installing or making grants or loans towards the cost of installing water supplies, sanitation works, and drainage in Maori settlements; or

    • (ii) by promoting, carrying out, or subsidising housing schemes, or by making grants or loans for any such schemes; or

    • (iii) by providing, subsidising, or making grants for medical, nursing, or dental services:

  • (b) the promotion of social, cultural, and economic welfare—

    • (i) by making grants or loans for the relief of poverty or distress; or

    • (ii) by developing, subsidising, or making grants or loans for farming or other industries; or

    • (iii) by making grants or loans towards the cost of the construction, establishment, management, maintenance, repair, or improvement of Maori meeting houses, halls, churches and church halls, kohanga reo, villages, marae, or cemeteries; or

    • (iv) by establishing, maintaining, and equipping hostels for the purpose of providing either permanent or temporary accommodation; or

    • (v) by making grants or loans towards the establishment of recreational centres for the common use of any Maori community and for such other uses as the trustees think fit; or

    • (vi) by promoting, carrying out, or subsidising roading schemes, power schemes, or such other schemes as the trustees think fit, or by making grants or loans for any such schemes; or

    • (vii) by purchasing, acquiring, holding, selling, disposing of, or otherwise turning to account shares in any body corporate that has as one of its principal objects the economic or social advancement of Maori, or the development of land; or

    • (viii) by the promotion of schemes to encourage the practice of Maori arts and crafts, the study of Maori lore and history, and the speaking of the Maori language:

  • (c) the promotion of education and vocational training—

    • (i) by assisting in the establishment, equipping, managing, and conducting of schools and other educational or training institutions, including kohanga reo, by making grants of money, equipment, or material to schools and other educational or training institutions, including kohanga reo; or by making grants to the Maori Education Foundation established by the Maori Education Foundation Act 1961, or to any other funds established or bodies formed for the promotion of the education of Maori or for assisting Maori to obtain training or practical experience necessary or desirable for any trade or occupation; or

    • (ii) by providing scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, or other methods of enabling individuals to secure the benefits of education or training, or by making grants to Education Boards or other educational bodies for scholarships, exhibitions, or bursaries; or

    • (iii) by providing books, clothing, or other equipment for the holders of scholarships or other individuals, or by making grants generally for the purpose of assisting the parents or guardians of children to provide for their education or training for any employment or occupation; or

    • (iv) by providing, maintaining, or contributing towards the cost of residential accommodation for children in relation to their education or training:

  • (d) such other or additional purposes as the trustees with the approval of the court from time to time determine.

  (3) Nothing in this section shall prevent the trustees from applying money for the general benefit of a group or class of persons, notwithstanding that the group or class of persons includes persons other than beneficiaries; but no grant or loan shall be made to any individual for that individual’s exclusive benefit unless that individual is a beneficiary or a descendant of a beneficiary.

  Section 218(2)(b)(iii): amended, on 1 July 2002, by section 30 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 16).