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2: Negotiations
To Register
Registration Form (PDF)
Public Notice
A Special Resolution of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara (including a postal ballot) has been passed by postal ballot ratifying the Deed of Settlement, and to allow the trustees of Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Development Trust and Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Tari Pupuritaonga Trust to enter into the Deed. See full Notice (PDF).
These are between the claimant group and the Office of Treaty Settlements (OTS)
According to the OTS, claimant groups entering negotiations with the Crown need a mandate for their appointed negotiators.
- Terms of Negotiation - an agreement between both parties as to how negotiations will take place.
- An Agreement in Principle which broadly sets out the scope of the remedies for settling the claim.
- Deed of Settlement: the precise details. The Deed generally includes an acknowledgment of the breaches of the Crown’s Treaty breaches, a return of culturally significant sites and certain commercial assets, and a monetary payment.
All these milestones must have been discussed and approved by the claimant group as a whole. Postal ballot voting is the method of confirmation required by the Crown of the claimant group’s approval of the last two milestones.
Ngati Whatua o Kaipara ki te Tonga signed Terms of Negotiation in June 2008.