diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/PurpleBot.java b/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/PurpleBot.java
index 07dc3ab..ab74576 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/PurpleBot.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/PurpleBot.java
@@ -1735,6 +1735,20 @@ public void broadcastChat(String nick, String myChannel, String message, boolean
         plugin.logDebug("Check if " + TemplateName.IRC_CHAT
                 + " is enabled before broadcasting chat from IRC");
         if (enabledMessages.get(myChannel).contains(TemplateName.IRC_CHAT) || override) {
+            if (filters.containsKey(myChannel)) {
+                if (!filters.get(myChannel).isEmpty()) {
+                    for (String filter : filters.get(myChannel)) {
+                        if (filter.startsWith("/") && filter.endsWith("/")) {
+                            filter = filter.substring(1, filter.length() - 1);
+                            plugin.logDebug("Regex filtering " + filter + " from " + message);
+                            message = message.replaceAll(filter, "");
+                        } else {
+                            plugin.logDebug("Filtering " + filter + " from " + message);
+                            message = message.replace(filter, "");
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
             plugin.logDebug("Yup we can broadcast due to " + TemplateName.IRC_CHAT + " enabled");
             plugin.getServer().broadcast(plugin.tokenizer.ircChatToGameTokenizer(
                     nick, myChannel, plugin.getMsgTemplate(botNick,
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/Utilities/IRCMessageHandler.java b/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/Utilities/IRCMessageHandler.java
index 3c97ccc..9065c42 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/Utilities/IRCMessageHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cnaude/purpleirc/Utilities/IRCMessageHandler.java
@@ -179,21 +179,7 @@ public void processMessage(PurpleBot ircBot, User user, Channel channel, String
             if (privateMessage && !ircBot.relayPrivateChat) {
                 plugin.logDebug("Message NOT dispatched for broadcast due to \"relay-private-chat\" being false and this is a private message ...");
                 return;
-            }
-            if (ircBot.filters.containsKey(myChannel)) {
-                if (!ircBot.filters.get(myChannel).isEmpty()) {
-                    for (String filter : ircBot.filters.get(myChannel)) {
-                        if (filter.startsWith("/") && filter.endsWith("/")) {
-                            filter = filter.substring(1, filter.length() - 1);
-                            plugin.logDebug("Regex filtering " + filter + " from " + message);
-                            message = message.replaceAll(filter, "");
-                        } else {
-                            plugin.logDebug("Filtering " + filter + " from " + message);
-                            message = message.replace(filter, "");
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
+            }            
             plugin.logDebug("Message dispatched for broadcast...");
             ircBot.broadcastChat(user.getNick(), myChannel, message, false);
         }