5.-(1) The Board shall be the central authority for all matters relating to elementary and secondary education (including teacher training) for Greek Cypriots.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Law, the Board shall be charged, with the general control and supervision, of all duties and powers to be performed or exercised by any person or body of persons under the Elementary Education Law and the Secondary Education Law in respect of Greek Cypriots.
(3) Without prejudice to the operation of section 8 the Board shall have power to do any act or thing necessary or incidental to the purposes mentioned in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section which a Board of Education for Greek-Orthodox Schools is expressly or by implication authorised to do under the Elementary Education Law as modified by this Law, and to this end references in the Elementary Education Law to the Board of Education for Greek-Orthodox Schools shall, except as otherwise provided in the following sub-section and in section 10, be construed as if they were references to the Board.
(4) From the commencement of this Law section 3 of the Elementary Education Law, in so far as it provides that the Governor shall be the central authority for all matters relating to elementary education in Cyprus and be charged with the control and supervision thereof, shall cease to have effect in relation to the elementary education of Greek Cypriots, and the reference to Boards of Education in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the said Law (which empowers delegation by the Governor) shall be construed as having no application in the case of the Board.
(5) The Chairman may, if thereunto authorised by resolution of the Board, do or perform such acts or things as may under the provisions of this Law or any regulations made thereunder be done or performed by the Board.
(6) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall derogate from the powers and duties expressly conferred or imposed upon the Governor or any person or persons by the Elementary Education Law and the Secondary Education Law in relation to the education of Greek Cypriots, which powers and duties shall, to the extent that they are not dealt with under section 8 of this Law, continue to be exercised and performed by the Governor or such person or persons.