diff --git a/source/basic.tex b/source/basic.tex
index 5bcccc2f84..424f39e222 100644
--- a/source/basic.tex
+++ b/source/basic.tex
@@ -2891,8 +2891,7 @@
 occupies is reused or released; however, if there is no explicit call to
 the destructor or if a \grammarterm{delete-expression}\iref{expr.delete}
 is not used to release the storage, the destructor shall not be
-implicitly called and any program that depends on the side effects
-produced by the destructor has undefined behavior.
+implicitly called.
 
 \pnum
 Before the lifetime of an object has started but after the storage which