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

## Specific temporary political arrangements
### 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

### Caretaker interim governments
#### 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