diff --git a/routes/v1/runtime_incident_policy/routes.go b/routes/v1/runtime_incident_policy/routes.go
index ed56e03..d27cd34 100644
--- a/routes/v1/runtime_incident_policy/routes.go
+++ b/routes/v1/runtime_incident_policy/routes.go
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ func AddRoutes(g *gin.Engine) {
 		WithValidatePostUniqueName(false).
 		WithValidatePutGUID(true).
 		WithValidatePostMandatoryName(true).
-		WithV2ListSearch(true).
-		WithValidatePutUniqueName(true)
+		WithV2ListSearch(true)
 
 	handlers.AddRoutes(g, routerOptionsBuilder.Get()...)
 }
diff --git a/service_test.go b/service_test.go
index c817079..4a1394f 100644
--- a/service_test.go
+++ b/service_test.go
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ var runtimeIncidentPolicyReq1 []byte
 //go:embed test_data/runtimeIncidentPolicyReq2.json
 var runtimeIncidentPolicyReq2 []byte
 
+//go:embed test_data/runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3.json
+var runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3 []byte
+
 var newClusterCompareFilter = cmp.FilterPath(func(p cmp.Path) bool {
 	switch p.String() {
 	case "PortalBase.GUID", "SubscriptionDate", "LastLoginDate", "PortalBase.UpdatedTime", "ExpirationDate":
@@ -2131,6 +2134,13 @@ func (suite *MainTestSuite) TestRuntimeIncidentPolicies() {
 		suite.NotNil(doc.GUID)
 		suite.Equal("Anomaly", doc.Name[:7])
 	}
+	// test sort by scope
+	w = suite.doRequest(http.MethodPost, consts.RuntimeIncidentPolicyPath+"/query", runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3)
+	suite.Equal(http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+	_, err = decodeResponse[armotypes.V2ListResponseGeneric[[]*kdr.IncidentPolicy]](w)
+	if err != nil {
+		suite.FailNow(err.Error())
+	}
 }
 
 func (suite *MainTestSuite) TestIntegrationReference() {
diff --git a/test_data/runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3.json b/test_data/runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfdf521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_data/runtimeIncidentPolicyReq3.json
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+    "pageSize": 100,
+    "pageNum": 0,
+    "orderBy": "scope.designators.cluster:asc,scope.designators.namespace:asc,scope.designators.kind:asc,scope.designators.name:asc",
+    "innerFilters": [
+        {
+            "enabled": "true",
+            "managedRuleSetIDs": "c9fe6345-c393-4595-bd7b-22110dbafe61",
+            "ruleSetType": "Managed",
+            "scope.designators.cluster": "gke_elated-pottery-310110_us-central1-c_bez-longrun-3,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.kind": "Deployment,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.labels": ",|missing",
+            "scope.designators.name": "redis-sleep,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.namespace": "systest-ns-o9zz,|missing",
+            "scope.riskFactors": "risk1,|missing"
+        },
+        {
+            "enabled": "true",
+            "incidentTypeIDs": "I013,|missing",
+            "ruleSetType": "Custom",
+            "scope.designators.cluster": "gke_elated-pottery-310110_us-central1-c_bez-longrun-3,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.kind": "Deployment,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.labels": ",|missing",
+            "scope.designators.name": "redis-sleep,|missing",
+            "scope.designators.namespace": "systest-ns-o9zz,|missing",
+            "scope.riskFactors": "|missing"
+        }
+    ],
+    "includeFields": [
+        "guid",
+        "name"
+    ]
+}
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