Acquisition of easements and profits by prescription

(1) Subject to the Prescription Act, easements and profits may be acquired without registration by peaceful, open and uninterrupted enjoyment thereof for a period of twenty years, but no easement of profit shall be acquired unless the proprietor of the land burdened by such easement or profit is, or by CAP. 192. 88 reasonable diligence might have been, aware of such enjoyment and might by his own efforts have prevented it. (2) Where any person claims to have acquired an easement or profit by virtue of sub-section (1), he may apply to the Registrar for the registration thereof, and the Registrar, on being satisfied as to the claim and subject to such notices, advertisements and conditions as the Registrar may direct, shall register the easement or profit as an encumbrance on the register of the land affected and, in the case of an easement, in the property section of the register of the land which benefits.