diff --git a/openpype/plugins/publish/validate_sequence_frames.py b/openpype/plugins/publish/validate_sequence_frames.py
index 98df259cc8..409d9ac17e 100644
--- a/openpype/plugins/publish/validate_sequence_frames.py
+++ b/openpype/plugins/publish/validate_sequence_frames.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ class ValidateSequenceFrames(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
 
     def process(self, instance):
         representations = instance.data.get("representations")
+        if not representations:
+            return
         for repr in representations:
             repr_files = repr["files"]
             if isinstance(repr_files, str):