EVENT INFORMATION

4
July
2018

Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Act receives Royal assent

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📅 4 July 2018 📍 New Zealand

The Act records the Crown's acknowledgements and apology to Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and gives effect to cultural and commercial redress. It provides statutory recognition of historical claims and sets out vesting of cultural redress properties. The settlement responds to Crown land purchases and policies that caused land loss and harmed the iwi's cultural and economic base. The legislation is a material and symbolic remedy, but its full and final settlement provisions also show how redress frameworks can close legal avenues while leaving wider structural consequences in place.

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Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki

New Zealand Parliament

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