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
• Regent, temporary ruler standing in for monarch currently unable to exercise rule
• Locum, a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another

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

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

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

Arts

• Interim (film), 1953 short film by Stan Brakhage
• Interim (album), 2004 album by British rock band The Fall
• INTERIM-Theater in Munich

Other

• MCC Interim Linux, provisional software release 1992
• Interim Control Module, NASA machine

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Interim
• Intermediate state (disambiguation)