diff --git a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NHWCKernel.cpp b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NHWCKernel.cpp
index 1fce14f..4f3636b 100644
--- a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NHWCKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NHWCKernel.cpp
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_MISMATCHING_DATA_TYPES(input, weights);
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(depth_multiplier > 1); // COMPMID-1071 Add depth multiplier support for NHWC
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(weights->dimension(1) != 3 || weights->dimension(2) != 3);
+    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(conv_info.stride().first < 1 || conv_info.stride().first > 2);
+    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(std::max(conv_info.pad_top(), conv_info.pad_bottom()) > 1);
 
     const bool is_qasymm = is_data_type_quantized_asymmetric(input->data_type());
 
@@ -155,10 +157,6 @@
 
     ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_THROW_ON(validate_arguments(input->info(), weights->info(), (biases != nullptr) ? biases->info() : nullptr, output->info(), conv_info, depth_multiplier, act_info));
 
-    const unsigned int conv_stride_x = conv_info.stride().first;
-    ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON(conv_stride_x < 1 || conv_stride_x > 2);
-    ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON(std::max(conv_info.pad_top(), conv_info.pad_bottom()) > 1);
-
     const bool is_qasymm         = is_data_type_quantized_asymmetric(input->info()->data_type());
     const bool is_stride_1       = ((conv_info.stride().first == conv_info.stride().second) && (conv_info.stride().first == 1));
     const bool is_dot8_supported = dot8_supported(CLKernelLibrary::get().get_device());
@@ -243,7 +241,7 @@
     }
     else
     {
-        build_opts.add_option("-DCONV_STRIDE_X=" + support::cpp11::to_string(conv_stride_x));
+        build_opts.add_option("-DCONV_STRIDE_X=" + support::cpp11::to_string(conv_info.stride().first));
         build_opts.add_option("-DCONV_STRIDE_Y=" + support::cpp11::to_string(_conv_stride_y));
     }
     build_opts.add_option_if(_input->info()->tensor_shape().total_size_upper(3) > 1,