Section 27

The administrative head of a public office shall prepare and submit a record disposal schedule in the prescribed form for the disposal of public records to the Director General for his approval.

The Director General may approve the record disposal schedule submitted under subsection (1) and, in approving anysuch schedule, may impose any requirement or condition as he thinks fit.

For the purpose of this section, “records disposal schedule”

means a schedule identifying those records of archival value to be preserved and authorizing the destruction of the remaining records after the lapse of specified retention periods.