diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2e609a106..180b34285 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1203,7 +1203,6 @@
 
             <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.AbstractParenPadCheck</pattern><branchRate>88</branchRate><lineRate>100</lineRate></regex>
             <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.EmptyForInitializerPadCheck</pattern><branchRate>91</branchRate><lineRate>93</lineRate></regex>
-            <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.EmptyForIteratorPadCheck</pattern><branchRate>100</branchRate><lineRate>92</lineRate></regex>
             <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.EmptyLineSeparatorCheck</pattern><branchRate>95</branchRate><lineRate>98</lineRate></regex>
             <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.GenericWhitespaceCheck</pattern><branchRate>86</branchRate><lineRate>96</lineRate></regex>
             <regex><pattern>.*.checks.whitespace.NoWhitespaceAfterCheck</pattern><branchRate>94</branchRate><lineRate>98</lineRate></regex>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest.java
index e6888cd0b..68e93d742 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest.java
@@ -19,15 +19,16 @@
 
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace;
 
-import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.BaseCheckTestSupport;
-import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration;
+import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.WS_FOLLOWED;
+import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.WS_NOT_FOLLOWED;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.EmptyForIteratorPadCheck
-.WS_FOLLOWED;
-import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.EmptyForIteratorPadCheck
-.WS_NOT_FOLLOWED;
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.BaseCheckTestSupport;
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration;
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
 
 public class EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest
     extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
@@ -55,4 +56,15 @@ public class EmptyForIteratorPadCheckTest
         };
         verify(checkConfig, getPath("InputForWhitespace.java"), expected);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetAcceptableTokens() {
+        EmptyForIteratorPadCheck emptyForIteratorPadCheckObj = new EmptyForIteratorPadCheck();
+        int[] actual = emptyForIteratorPadCheckObj.getAcceptableTokens();
+        int[] expected = new int[] {
+            TokenTypes.FOR_ITERATOR,
+        };
+        Assert.assertNotNull(actual);
+        Assert.assertArrayEquals(expected, actual);
+    }
 }