diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
index df9cf27d8..54d9df4a3 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
@@ -1365,6 +1365,8 @@ Delete tabs from lines, trim the lines and removes empty lines.
 <p>Suppresses all tokens that match their ancestor token.  It is most
   useful if combined with a sort filter.</p>
 
+<p>This filter may be used directly within a filterchain.</p>
+
 <h4>Example:</h4>
 
 This suppresses duplicate lines.
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/UniqFilter.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/UniqFilter.java
index a7d2334e4..e72d5f581 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/UniqFilter.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/UniqFilter.java
@@ -26,12 +26,10 @@ package org.apache.tools.ant.filters;
  *
  * @since Ant 1.8.0
  */
-public class UniqFilter implements TokenFilter.Filter {
+public class UniqFilter extends TokenFilter.ChainableReaderFilter {
 
     private String lastLine = null;
 
-    public UniqFilter() { }
-
     public String filter(String string) {
         return lastLine == null || !lastLine.equals(string)
             ? (lastLine = string) : null;
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/filters/uniq-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/filters/uniq-test.xml
index 0957b9ebe..832ec944d 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/filters/uniq-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/filters/uniq-test.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,18 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="testUniqFilter" depends="setUp">
+    <copy file="input/uniq.txt"
+          tofile="${output}/uniq.txt">
+      <filterchain>
+        <uniqfilter/>
+      </filterchain>
+    </copy>
+    <au:assertFilesMatch
+       expected="expected/uniq.txt"
+       actual="${output}/uniq.txt"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="testUniqTokenFilter" depends="setUp">
     <copy file="input/uniq.txt"
           tofile="${output}/uniq.txt">
       <filterchain>