In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.

The British, extremely weakened by the Second World War, promised that they would leave and participated in the formation of an interim government.

The interim governor-general of the Sudan, the British Major-General Charles George Gordon, and many of the fifty thousand inhabitants of Khartoum were massacred.

In this interim, the British made one last major invasion, attempting to capture New Orleans, but were decisively defeated with very heavy losses by General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815.

On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.

In December 1967, two members of Britain's Parliament worked out an interim agreement by which for one year a British official would exercise basic administrative authority along with the Anguilla Council.

A new British envoy, William Whitlock, arrived on 11 March 1969 with a proposal for a new interim British administration.

She pitted the pigeon ( again carrying a memory card ) against an upload to YouTube via British Telecom broadband ; the pigeon arrived in about ninety minutes while the upload was still incomplete: having failed once in the interim.

Following the suspension of the constitution, British Guiana was governed by an interim administration consisting of small group of conservative politicians, businessmen, and civil servants that lasted until 1957.

The terms offered on HMS Tiger were moderated by dropping the need for an interim return to British rule.

Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond ( 29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993 ), known as Jo Grimond, was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.

Unlike at the federal level, however, there have been instances where the governing party recommended that the deputy premier serve as premier on an interim basis until a permanent successor was chosen — most notably, Dan Miller ascended from the deputy premiership to the premiership of British Columbia in 1999, following the resignation of Glen Clark, and Kathy Dunderdale ascended from the deputy premiership to the premiership of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2010, following the resignation of Danny Williams.

It also provided for the continued presence of British, French, and American troops in Berlin during the interim period of the Soviet withdrawal.

British Columbia joined confederation on July 20, 1871, and McCreight joined the interim transitional cabinet as Attorney General.

In a statement on 20 July 2006, the Transport Secretary announced that there would be no structural or operational changes to the British Transport Police, effectively ruling out any merger The interim report by the Attorney General's fraud review recognised the role taken by the City Police as the lead force in London and the South-East for tackling fraud, and made a recommendation that, should a national lead force be required, the City Police, with its expertise, would be an ideal candidate to take this role.

The national anthem lost its legal status in December 1979, when interim British control returned to the country pending its internationally recognised independence as Zimbabwe five months later.

The national anthem remained unchanged on 12 December 1979, when Zimbabwe Rhodesia came under British control for an interim period before internationally recognised independence came in April 1980, with the country now called Zimbabwe.

* August 25-Dan Miller, as interim leader of the NDP, becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Glen Clark who resigned on the 21st

In the interim, the NP would have to consolidate itself and not antagonise the British.

Joy MacPhail served as interim leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia from 2001 to 2003, following the party's defeat in the 2001 provincial election, in which Ujjal Dosanjh lost his seat.

Ali Khan was invited first to join the Congress Party, but allied himself with the Muslim League, playing a vital role in the independence of India and Pakistan, while served as the Finance minister in the interim government of British Indian Empire, prior to partition.

Initially operating under the interim name Caledonian // BUA, the merged entity adopted the British Caledonian name as of September 1971.

The interim president was the speaker of the outgoing parliament ( whose replacement was annulled ), Nino Burjanadze.

The new interim government held consultations on a new constitution, intended to increase the powers of the parliament and reduce those of the president.

After the victory of Loktantra Andolan in the spring of 2006, a unicameral interim legislature replaced the previous parliament.

In 1949, the interim parliament (" Parlamentarischer Rat ") eliminated Kassel in the first round as a city to become the provisional capital of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bonn won ).

On December 23, 2007 this interim government won a vote of confidence in parliament, with 97 votes in favor, 46 opposed, and one abstention, assuring its legitimacy for three months.

Ne Win was asked to serve as interim prime minister from 28 October 1958 by U Nu, when the AFPFL split into two factions and U Nu barely survived a motion of no-confidence against his government in parliament.

In some countries ( including Australia and New Zealand ) the term is used to describe the government that operates in the interim period between the normal dissolution of parliament for the purpose of holding an election and the formation of a new government after the election results are known.

During the Loktantra Andolan, the RJP suggested that the King Gyanendra would initiate talks with ' constitutional forces '. When the King was stripped of his political powers by the interim parliament, RJP did not object. In November 2006, the Prajatantrik Nepal Party led by Keshar Bahadur Bista merged into RJP.

RJP MPs had previously boycotted a vote in the interim parliament on making Nepal a republic. Thapa had dubbed the vote ' an attack on the fundamental norms of democracy '.

Despite the division being only interim, Poland decided to organize the elections to Sejm ( Polish parliament ) in the area.

This meeting resulted in the Comprehensive Peace Accord to dissolve parliament, incorporate the CPN ( M ) into a new interim government, draft a new constitution, and disband the CPN ( M )' s " people's governments " operating in rural Nepal.

The SNP and Plaid Cymru also call for an English parliament, although they feel the best way to achieve this is through a dissolution of Union, they will accept federation in the interim.

Following the elections and in the interim period before Băsescu's DA Alliance was able to form a coalition majority, the PSD succeeded in obtaining sufficient support within the parliament to elect Năstase as president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Peterson resigned as Liberal leader immediately after the election, and Nixon once again became his party's interim leader on September 13, 1990 ( he also became leader of the opposition again in November, when parliament returned to sit ).

Despite of the division being interim only, Poland decided to organise elections to the Polish parliament ( Sejm ) in the area.

Mahfuz Nedahi, who had served as Minister of Mines and Industry in the interim government, accused the other candidates of running on tribal or party lines and failing to offer a true programme of national unity, while Sayed Abdul Hadi Dabir, an amateur boxer and former fighter in the Mujahedin, criticised tribal nepotism in government appointments and called for a national Ulema to be formed as part of the elected parliament.

It was officially declared as the national anthem of Nepal on August 3, 2007, amid a ceremony held at the conference hall of National Planning Commission, inside the Singha Durbar, by the speaker of the interim parliament, Mr. Subash Chandra Nemwang.

" National Legislature ") was the former parliament of the Philippines, established as an interim assembly in 1978 and later as an official body in 1984.

An interim parliament was formed in 2006, abolishing the two chambers, and elections of a Constituent Assembly were scheduled for April 10, 2008.

Ishenbai Duyshonbiyevich Kadyrbekov ( Ишенбай Дүйшөнбиевич Кадырбеков ) ( born July 16, 1949 in Naryn, Kyrgyz SSR ) was the parliament speaker and the interim president of Kyrgyzstan in March 2005.

Tekebayev emerged as an important figure in the transitional chaos, both due to his constitutional role as head of parliament and because while Akayev refused to recognize Bakiyev's authority as interim president, he did recognize Tekebayev's authority as Speaker of Parliament and indicated a willingness to negotiate with him.

Under the interim constitution ( valid from 1994 to 1996 ), there was a Government of National Unity, in which a member of parliament from the largest opposition party was entitled to a position as deputy president.

He became the party's interim parliamentary leader on June 2, 2011, after it was reduced to only four seats in parliament in that spring's federal election.

On 28 October 1958, Ne Win had staged a coup, under the auspices of U Nu, who asked Ne Win to serve as interim prime minister, in order to restore order in the country, after the AFPFL split into two factions and U Nu barely survived a motion of no-confidence against his government in parliament.