diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c6843a5..67cdc23 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Version 1.3-2 (development)
 
+* re-corrected #19 because the fitted model weights component may be NULL
+
 * suppress warning from `multcomp::glht` as the test which throws the warning is discarded
 
 # Version 1.3-1 (2023-11-23)
diff --git a/R/sarlm_functions.R b/R/sarlm_functions.R
index d97cd8a..cb27ff4 100644
--- a/R/sarlm_functions.R
+++ b/R/sarlm_functions.R
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ print.summary.Sarlm <- function(x, digits = max(5, .Options$digits - 3),
             format(signif(x$NK, digits)), "\n")
 	cat("Number of observations:", length(x$residuals), "\n")
 	cat("Number of parameters estimated:", x$parameters, "\n")
-	if (length(unique(x$weights)) == 1L) {
+	if ((is.null(x$weights) || (!is.null(x$weights) && length(unique(x$weights))) == 1L)) {
 	    cat("AIC: ", format(signif(AIC(x), digits)), ", (AIC for lm: ",
 		format(signif(x$AIC_lm.model, digits)), ")\n", sep="")
 	} else {