Honours and Titles Act
Section 4.101 — Most Noble Order of the Crown; create; appointments; classes; style.
(1) The Most Noble Order of the Crown is created as a civil honour.
(2) The Sovereign may appoint persons to the order at his pleasure. The Sovereign shall not appoint more than 22 living persons to the order and shall not appoint a foreign person to the order under paragraph (3)(c) without first obtaining the advice and consent of the Council of State by resolution to that effect.
(3) The order shall consist of the following classes:
(a) The Sovereign, who shall not count towards the ordinary numerical limit in subsection (2).
(b) Royal Knight Companion (KCC) and Royal Dame Companion (DCC), who shall be a member of the royal family or the House of Abbott by birth or by right.
(c) Knight Companion (KCC) and Dame Companion (DCC).
(d) Stranger Knight Companion (KCC) and Stranger Dame Companion (DCC), who shall be a foreign sovereign, the head of a foreign royal family, the head of a foreign royal house or the ancestral or derivative branches thereof, or a foreign head of state, a foreign head of government, or a foreign person of special distinction, and who shall not count towards the ordinary numerical limit in subsection (2).
(4) A person appointed to the order may be styled as "The Most Noble".