diff --git a/src/core/NEON/kernels/NENormalizationLayerKernel.cpp b/src/core/NEON/kernels/NENormalizationLayerKernel.cpp
index 253a93f..cb1996f 100644
--- a/src/core/NEON/kernels/NENormalizationLayerKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/core/NEON/kernels/NENormalizationLayerKernel.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
  */
 #include "arm_compute/core/NEON/kernels/NENormalizationLayerKernel.h"
 
+#include "arm_compute/core/CPP/Validate.h"
 #include "arm_compute/core/Error.h"
 #include "arm_compute/core/Helpers.h"
 #include "arm_compute/core/NEON/NEFixedPoint.h"
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
 Status validate_arguments(const ITensorInfo *input, const ITensorInfo *input_squared, const ITensorInfo *output, const NormalizationLayerInfo &norm_info)
 {
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, input_squared, output);
+    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_CPU_F16_UNSUPPORTED(input);
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_DATA_TYPE_CHANNEL_NOT_IN(input, 1, DataType::F16, DataType::F32);
 
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_MISMATCHING_DATA_TYPES(input, input_squared);