Treaty settlement commitments

Te Haeata – the Settlement Portal

Te Haeata provides agencies an online database of the commitments that are made in deeds of settlement and settlement legislation. It enables agencies to more easily search, view and know their settlement commitments.
tehaeata.govt.nz(external link)

Te Arawhiti provides training on Te Haeata for agencies. If you are interested in this training, please email tehaeata@tearawhiti.govt.nz

Guidance for Crown: Updating status of commitments on Te Haeata

Crown agencies have legal obligations to deliver the Treaty settlement commitments they are responsible for under deeds of settlement and settlement legislation.

Te Haeata allows agencies to track their progress in delivering those commitments.

Guidance has been developed for the Crown to update the status of commitments.
Guidance for Crown: Updating status of commitments on Te Haeata – the Settlement Portal [PDF, 719 KB]

This guidance assists agencies with:

  • entering a delivery-progress status and adding meaningful comments to the commitments they are responsible for
  • providing documentation to support the status they have assigned and
  • keeping the progress statuses and comments up to date.

If you have any questions about this guidance or the work of updating the status of commitments, please contact the Te Haeata Administration Team at tehaeata@tearawhiti.govt.nz

Right of First Refusal guides

A series of guides have been developed to provide information on the Rights of First Refusal (RFR) that are included in Treaty settlements.

The guides are available on the Toitū Te Whenua – Land Information New Zealand website(external link) 

The guides have been developed collaboratively by Toitū Te Whenua and Te Arawhiti.