Registration of companies and their documents.

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New Zealand developed a system of registering intellectual property interests from 1860. The registration of an interest, through the mechanism of a patent, trademark, design or copyright, asserted the ownership of the registered proprietor to their intellectual property. The New Zealand Patent Office, renamed the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand in 1997, has been responsible for much of this registration.

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Plant Variety Rights were introduced in New Zealand to protect the interests of breeders of new varieties of plants. They allowed a breeder with a registered interest to control the commercialisation of the breed, thereby recouping the expense of development, and profiting from their work. These measures were intended to encourage investment and effort in plant breeding, by insuring that the developer retained control of the variety. The system also allowed New Zealand access to foreign plant varieties, which would not be released here without protection for the breeder.

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Registration of security interests in motor vehicles.

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Registration of security interests held in respect of personal property.

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Research, policy development and advice to government on tourism have developed with the growth of private sector involvement in the industry.

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