diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/components/cookie-message.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/components/cookie-message.scss
index f72132ab5..28684d611 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/components/cookie-message.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/components/cookie-message.scss
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 // GOV.UK Publishing components cookie banner styles
 // https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_publishing_components/blob/master/app/assets/stylesheets/govuk_publishing_components/components/_cookie-banner.scss
-// sass-lint:disable mixins-before-declarations
 
 // component uses .govuk-body and .govuk-button classes from govuk-frontend
 @import 'core/typography';
diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index d8e8686d9..aef452c39 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ const lint = {
         paths.src + 'stylesheets/views/*.scss',
       ])
       .pipe(plugins.sassLint({
-        'options': { 'formatter': 'stylish' }
+        'options': { 'formatter': 'stylish' },
+        'rules': { 'mixins-before-declarations': [2, { 'exclude': ['media', 'govuk-media-query'] } ] }
       }))
       .pipe(plugins.sassLint.format())
       .pipe(plugins.sassLint.failOnError());