Two new transition-metal tellurium oxy-chlorides of the general formula NiB>5(TeO3)4X2 (X= Cl, Br) have been isolated during the investigation of the ternary phase diagram NiO-NiCl2-TeO2. They crystallize in the monoclinic system, space group C2/c, and for the caseof Ni5(TeO3)4Cl2 the unit cell is a = 19.5674(2) Å, b = 5.2457(1) Å, and c = 16.3084(1) Å,with beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle"> = 125.289(1). The structure is layered and built up of corner-connected [Ni5O17X2]entities, made of five nickel(II) octahedra associated by edge and face sharing. The tellurium(IV) atoms are fixed upon the nickel layers. Their lone pairs E and the halogen atoms arepacked in a double layer perpendicular to the [010] direction. From the magnetic point ofview, this system provides a new 2D S = 1 quantum spin system with antiferromagneticsuperexchange interaction. The magnetic susceptibility shows anomalies pointing to magneticordering phenomena. The observed transition temperatures vary with the interlayerseparation.