Section 27. The Local Government may from time to time assign to any village-community the rights of Government

CHAPTER III. OF VILLAGE-FORESTS. 27. The Local Government may from time to time assign to any village-community the rights of Government to or over any land which has been constituted a reserved forest, and may cancel such assignment. All forests so assigned shall be called village-forests. The Local Government may from time to time make rules for regulating the management of village-forests, prescribing the conditions under which the community to which any such assignment is made may be provided with timber or other forest-produce, or pasture, and their duties for the protection and improvement of such forest. All provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall (so far as they are consistent with the rules so made) apply to village-forests.