diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 26a4359ac..e8f6c61d4 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -5625,7 +5625,8 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyConst()
 {
     for (Token *tok = _tokens; tok; tok = tok->next())
     {
-        if (Token::Match(tok, "[;{}(,] %type% const"))
+        if (Token::Match(tok, "[;{}(,] %type% const") &&
+            tok->next()->str().find(":") == std::string::npos)
         {
             tok->tokAt(2)->str(tok->tokAt(1)->str());
             tok->tokAt(1)->str("const");
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 547566aab..ce76d39ca 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(tokenize1);
         TEST_CASE(tokenize2);
         TEST_CASE(tokenize3);
+        TEST_CASE(tokenize4);
 
         // don't freak out when the syntax is wrong
         TEST_CASE(wrong_syntax);
@@ -259,6 +260,22 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
+    void tokenize4()
+    {
+        errout.str("");
+        const std::string code("class foo\n"
+                               "{\n"
+                               "public:\n"
+                               "    const int i;\n"
+                               "}");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("class foo\n"
+                      "{\n"
+                      "public:\n"
+                      "const int i ;\n"
+                      "}", tokenizeAndStringify(code.c_str()));
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+    }
+
     void wrong_syntax()
     {
         errout.str("");