Interim

An **interim** is a period of temporary pause or change in a sequence of events, or a temporary state, and is often applied to transitional political entities.

**Interim** may also refer to:

## Temporary organizational arrangements (general concept)

- Provisional government, emergency government during the creation, collapse, or crisis of a state; also called interim government
- Caretaker government, temporary rule between governments in a parliamentary democracy; also called interim government
- Acting president, interim head of a state
- Acting (law), designation of a person temporarily exercising the authority of any position
- Interim management, in business

### Provisional and interim governments and constitutions

- Articles of Confederation, United States 1781–1788
- Interim government of California, 1846–1850
- Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, 1861–1862
- Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China, 1912–1931
- Dáil Constitution, Ireland 1918–1921
- Interim National Assembly (Czechoslovakia), 1945–1946
- Interim Government of India, 1946–1947
- Provisional Constitution of 1950, Indonesia 1950–1959
- Interim Constitution of Tanzania, 1964–1977
- Interim presidency of Suharto, Indonesia 1967–1968
- Interim Constitution of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (1974), from 1974
- Interim Batasang Pambansa, government of the Philippines 1978–1984
- Interim Government of Iran 1979–80, also covered by Interim Government of Iran (1979–80),
- Interim Government of Iran (1981)
- Interim Parliament of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 1983
- Transitional Government of Ethiopia, 1991–1995
- Interim Government of Somalia, 1991–1996
- Interim National Government, Nigeria 1993
- Interim Constitution (South Africa), 1994–1997
- National Transitional Council (Congo), 1997–2001
- Joint Interim Administrative Structure, Kosovo 2000–2001
- Afghan Interim Administration, 2001–2002
- Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period, 2004–2005
- Iraqi Interim Government, 2005
- Iraqi Transitional Government, 2005–2006
- Interim National Constitution of the Republic of Sudan, 2005
- 2006 interim constitution of Thailand and 2006 Thai interim civilian government
- Interim Cabinet of Fiji, 2007
- 2011 Provisional Constitution of Egypt, 2011–2012
- National Transitional Council, Libya 2011–2012
- Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration, from 2011
- Regmi interim cabinet, Nepal 2013–2014
- Interim Government of Ambazonia, from 2017
- 2020 interim government of Kyrgyzstan

#### Specific states generally

- Interrex (English: "between kings"), office in the Roman Kingdom and Republic, a type of regent
- Caretaker government of Australia, laws and history pertaining to interim governments in that country
- Caretaker government of Bangladesh, laws and history pertaining to interim governments in that country
- Caretaker government of Malaysia, laws and history pertaining to interim governments in that country
- Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, laws and history pertaining to interim governments in that country
- Interim and Acting President of Israel
- Interim leader (Canada), a temporary party leader appointed upon the resignation or death of a party leader

#### Specific caretaker interim governments

- Churchill caretaker ministry, United Kingdom 1945
- Iraqi Governing Council, government under the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period, 2004–2005 (see above)
- Interim legislature of Nepal, from 2009
- Interim Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos in Greece, 2012
- 2015 interim election government of Turkey
- Caretaker Government of Myanmar (2021), from 2021
- **Sub-state entities**
- Interim East Punjab Assembly, 1947–1951
- Interim Morgan Government, Wales 2000
- Interim Uttarakhand Assembly, Indian state of Uttarakhand 2000–2002
- Ituri Interim Administration, government of the Ituri region of the Congo, from 2003
- Syrian Interim Government, government of some parts of Syria from 2013
- Bangsamoro Interim Cabinet, government of Bangsamoro in the Philippines from 2018

### Temporary peaces

- Regensburg Interim, 1542 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
- Augsburg Interim, 1548 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
- Leipzig Interim, another 1548 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
- Interim Peace between Finland and the USSR 1940–1941

### Diplomacy

- _Chargé d'affaires ad interim_, temporary head of a diplomatic mission
- Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, 1945, also called the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers
- Interim Agreement, commonly known as the Oslo Accords, relating to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, commonly known as the Oslo II Accord
- Sinai Interim Agreement, also known as the Sinai II Agreement, between Egypt and Israel 1975
- Interim Self Governing Authority, 2003 Tamil proposal
- Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program, 2013, commonly known as the Joint Plan of Action

### Other

- Interim Committee, precursor to the American Atomic Energy Commission 1945–1946
- Interim Independent Electoral Commission (Kenya), 2009–2011
- Interim Committee on Un-American Activities, commonly known as the Canwell Committee, legislative committee of Washington State in the United States, 1947–1949
- Nassau Interim Finance Authority, from 2000, New York State commission
- Interim Climate Change Committee, New Zealand 2018–2019

## Legal concepts and procedures

- Interim order, court order in effect pending outcome of a case
- Interim trustee, concept in United States bankruptcy law
- Interim appeal, a partial appeal in United States law
- Interim interdict in Scots law, a temporary injunction
- Judicial interim release, part of Canadian bail law

## Peacekeeping forces

- United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, from 1978
- United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei in Sudan, from 2011

## Sports

- Caretaker manager, temporary manager of a soccer team; also called interim manager
- Interim championship, temporary world championship in boxing and other contact sports
- IFA Interim Intermediate League, Ireland 2008–2009

## The arts

- _Interim_ (film), 1953 short film by Stan Brakhage
- _Interim_ (album), 2004 album by British rock band The Fall
- _Interim Resurgence_, 1985 album by Zoogz Rift
- INTERIM-Theater in Munich

## Other

- Interim analysis, in science, analysis of incomplete data
- Interim state, in some religious thought, an intermediate state between one's death and the End Times
- Interim alternative educational setting, in American education, temporary placement for a special-needs student
- Interim Housing, in China, provision for temporarily displaced persons
- MCC Interim Linux, provisional software release 1992
- Institute of Interim Management, United Kingdom
- Interim Fast Attack Vehicle, American scout vehicle
- Interim Control Module, NASA machine
- Interim Capability for Airborne Networking, United States Air Force process
- Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, taxonomic database
- Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia

## Related pages

- Ad interim, Latin phrase for "in the meantime"
- Interim velim a sole mihi non obstes ("In the meantime, don't block my sun")
- Regent, temporary ruler standing in for monarch currently unable to exercise rule
- Locum tenens, a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another