Oath
The Oath, recited by citizenship recipients in New Zealand, is as follows:
So help me God." |
The oath of citizenship in Māori (known as Te Oati Haumi) is as follows (without macrons):
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The Oath of citizenship may be recited in English or in Te Reo Maori. The latter is less typical, because most Maori are tangata whenua, meaning their ancestry predates the Crown and they are citizens by birth and by the Treaty of Waitangi. Nevertheless, a migrant to New Zealand (Aotearoa) who wishes to say the oath in Te Reo Maori and not in English, has the right to do so.
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