Building consents no longer required for "low risk projects" such as sleepouts

[Perry]

Well, these introductory provisions seems encouraging:

Single-storey detached buildings
(e.g. sleep outs, sheds and greenhouses)

There will be additional exemptions that increase the size of the current exemption:

Kitset or prefab buildings with a maximum floor area of 30 square metres where a manufacturer or supplier has had the design carried out or reviewed by a Chartered Professional Engineer

Buildings with a maximum floor area of 30 square metres where a Licensed Building Practitioner is to carry out or supervise design and construction

Buildings with a maximum floor area of 30 square metres where only lightweight materials with structural components built in accordance to Building Code compliance B1/AS1 are used, and this work may be done without the help of a professional.

But I suspect this workaround of yours is quite a stretch:

Cooking facilities (who uses an oven these days anyway. Microwave + portable cooktop. Solved)

How could such thing not be cooking facilities?

[crashy]

Because "cooking facilities" are clearly defined as either a freestanding stove, wall oven, or cooktop. Portable appliances are not included

[Perry]

So something fixed-in-place, as opposed to moveable?

Where is said "clear definition" to be found?

[mrsaneperson]

In regard to portable cooking appliances they have always been exempt from legislation that permanent fixtures are under.