Subject to the provisions of this Part, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to maintain any school governed by a board of management incorporated under section 19(2) of this Act.

For the purposes of subsection (1) above, the duty of the Secretary of State is a duty to make such payments in respect of the expenses of maintaining the school as are required by the following provisions of this Part.

A school to which the Secretary of State’s duty under this section for the time being applies shall be known as a self-governing school.

On the incorporation date any duty of the education authority to maintain or manage the school, or to provide school education in the school, or to keep it efficient, shall cease.