diff --git a/src/providers/delimitedtext/qgsdelimitedtextfeatureiterator.cpp b/src/providers/delimitedtext/qgsdelimitedtextfeatureiterator.cpp
index 2e4ff77edf24..9c73cb7f608a 100644
--- a/src/providers/delimitedtext/qgsdelimitedtextfeatureiterator.cpp
+++ b/src/providers/delimitedtext/qgsdelimitedtextfeatureiterator.cpp
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ void QgsDelimitedTextFeatureIterator::fetchAttribute( QgsFeature& feature, int f
 
 QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource::QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource( const QgsDelimitedTextProvider* p )
     : mGeomRep( p->mGeomRep )
-    , mSubsetExpression( p->mSubsetExpression )
+    , mSubsetExpression( p->mSubsetExpression ? new QgsExpression(p->mSubsetExpression->expression()) : 0 )
     , mExtent( p->mExtent )
     , mUseSpatialIndex( p->mUseSpatialIndex )
     , mSpatialIndex( p->mSpatialIndex ? new QgsSpatialIndex( *p->mSpatialIndex ) : 0 )
@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource::QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource( const QgsDelimited
 
 QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource::~QgsDelimitedTextFeatureSource()
 {
+  delete mSubsetExpression;
   delete mSpatialIndex;
   delete mFile;
 }