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
• Interrex
• 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

• 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

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 leader (Canada), a temporary party leader appointed upon the resignation or death of a party leader
• 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

See also

• 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