diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssembler.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssembler.java
index 392338dd41..fd58fc509f 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssembler.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssembler.java
@@ -189,13 +189,11 @@ private void assembleModelBaseInheritance( ModelBase child, ModelBase parent )
         {
             Repository repository = (Repository) iterator.next();
 
-            // parent will always override child repositories
-            // if there are duplicates
-            if ( childRepositories.contains( repository ) )
+            // child will always override parent repositories if there are duplicates
+            if ( !childRepositories.contains( repository ) )
             {
-                childRepositories.remove( repository );
+                child.addRepository( repository );
             }
-            child.addRepository( repository );
         }
 
         // Mojo Repositories :: aggregate
diff --git a/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssemblerTest.java b/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssemblerTest.java
index 3e82565e2f..fab28e9328 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssemblerTest.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/inheritance/DefaultModelInheritanceAssemblerTest.java
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ public void testRepositoryInheritenceWhereParentHasRepositoryAndTheChildHasSameI
 
         Model child = makeRepositoryModel( "child", "central", "http://repo2.maven.org/maven/" );
 
-        List repos = new ArrayList( parent.getRepositories() );
+        // We want to get the child repository here.
+        List repos = new ArrayList( child.getRepositories() );
 
         assembler.assembleModelInheritance( child, parent );