diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e48db38af..75d5e3c18 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: rtables
 Title: Reporting Tables
 Date: 2019-10-11
-Version: 0.3.2.13
+Version: 0.3.2.14
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Adrian", "Waddell", email = "adrian.waddell@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
   person("Gabriel", "Becker", email = "gabembecker@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/R/split_funs.R b/R/split_funs.R
index 9e49151ed..d2f543228 100644
--- a/R/split_funs.R
+++ b/R/split_funs.R
@@ -494,8 +494,6 @@ reorder_split_levels = function(neworder, newlabels = neworder, drlevels = TRUE)
         df2 = df
         valvec <- df2[[spl_payload(spl)]]
         vals = if(is.factor(valvec)) levels(valvec) else unique(valvec)
-        stopifnot(all(neworder %in% vals))
-
         if(!drlevels)
             neworder <- c(neworder, setdiff(vals, neworder))
         df2[[spl_payload(spl)]] = factor(valvec, levels = neworder)