diff --git a/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
index f632ece11..ecff548c2 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
         </module>
           <module name="UpperEll"/>
           <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+          <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
           <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
           <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
          <module name="IllegalTokenText">
@@ -246,8 +247,6 @@
         <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
         <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
 
-        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-
 
         <! - - Enable some JavaDoc validation (requires quite a lot of manual clean up work; not a top priority for initial Checkstyle adoption - ->
         <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/>