---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1522"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1522"
heading: "Protection of creditors and other interested persons"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1522"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases"
  - "Subchapter III — Recognition of a Foreign Proceeding and Relief"
---

# §1522. Protection of creditors and other interested persons

- (a) The court may grant relief under section [1519](/usc/11/1519.md) or [1521](/usc/11/1521.md), or may modify or terminate relief under [subsection (c)](#c), only if the interests of the [creditors](/usc/11/101.md?p=10) and other interested [entities](/usc/11/101.md?p=15), including the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1), are sufficiently protected.
- (b) The court may subject relief granted under section [1519](/usc/11/1519.md) or [1521](/usc/11/1521.md), or the operation of the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1)’s business under [section 1520(a)(3)](/usc/11/1520.md?p=a-3), to conditions it considers appropriate, including the giving of [security](/usc/11/101.md?p=49) or the filing of a bond.
- (c) The court may, at the request of the [foreign representative](/usc/11/101.md?p=24) or an [entity](/usc/11/101.md?p=15) affected by relief granted under section [1519](/usc/11/1519.md) or [1521](/usc/11/1521.md), or at its own motion, modify or terminate such relief.
- (d) [Section 1104(d)](/usc/11/1104.md?p=d) shall apply to the appointment of an examiner under this chapter. Any examiner shall comply with the qualification requirements imposed on a [trustee](/usc/11/1502.md?p=6) by section 322.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 142.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Apr. 20, 2005, and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such effective date, except as otherwise provided, see section 1501 of Pub. L. 109–8, set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.