49A.— F63[(1) Where a person claims to be entitled to an easement or profit à prendre by prescription, the person may apply to the Authority and the Authority, if satisfied that there is such an entitlement to the easement or profit à prendre may, subject to subsections (2) and (3), cause it, as may be appropriate, to be—

(a) registered as a burden under section 69(1)(jj), or

(b) entered in the register pursuant to section 82 or, in the case of a profit à prendre in gross, in the register of ownership maintained under section 8(b)(i), or both.]

(2) Subsection (1) applies only in relation to claims in respect of which—

(a) the land benefited by the easement or profit à prendre, to which other land is subject, is registered land, or

(b) the claim is made as part of an application for first registration of that land.]

F64[(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply to profits à prendre in gross.]