New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26 Benefit to persons who are not members of iwi

• (1) The constitutional documents of a mandated iwi organisation may permit the organisation to benefit—

  • (a) Maori who are not members of the iwi:

  • (b) the community generally.

  (2) If the constitutional documents of a mandated iwi organisation make provision as contemplated by subsection (1), that does not disqualify the organisation from being recognised as a mandated iwi organisation or affect the validity of its constitutional documents, to the extent that they relate to matters provided for by or under this Act.