Waitangi Tribunal - Ngāti Kahu Remedies Report [pdf, 5.3 MB]
...owned. In the case of Crown forest land, a recommendation for its return to Māori ownership will also involve the payment of the rent that has been paid for the use of the land as well as monetary compensation for its return subject to a forestry licence. The Tribunal’s power to recommend the return of Crown forest land and SOE land is referred to as its power of ‘resumption’ because, where the Tribunal exercises it, the Crown will have to ‘resume’ land to return it to the s...