diff --git a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
index ca18957..d5b34c3 100644
--- a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
         {
             ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_MISMATCHING_DATA_TYPES(weights, biases);
         }
-        ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(biases->dimension(0) != weights->dimension(2));
+        ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON((biases->dimension(0) != weights->dimension(2)) && (weights->dimension(2) != 1 || biases->dimension(0) != weights->dimension(3)));
         ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(biases->num_dimensions() > 1);
     }