New Zealand Legislation: Acts

14 Criteria for recognition of mandated iwi organisation

• The criteria for recognition and continuing recognition of a mandated iwi organisation under section 13(1) are that—

  • (a) the organisation is a company, trust, body corporate set up under an enactment, or incorporated society; and

  • (b) the constitutional documents of the organisation comply with section 17; and

  • (c) the directors, trustees, or office holders, as the case may be, are able to demonstrate that, for the purposes of their responsibilities under this Act, they have been duly elected or appointed in accordance with the constitutional documents of the organisation; and

  • (d) the organisation has a register of iwi members that—

    • (i) complies with kaupapa 5 of Schedule 7; and

    • (ii) has no fewer than the minimum number of members specified in column 4 of Schedule 3.