diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index e779f6f32e..0ffe0b6418 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -4388,10 +4388,6 @@ impl Timeline {
 
             guard.finish_gc_timeline(&gc_layers);
 
-            if result.layers_removed != 0 {
-                fail_point!("after-timeline-gc-removed-layers");
-            }
-
             #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
             {
                 result.doomed_layers = gc_layers;
diff --git a/test_runner/regress/test_gc_cutoff.py b/test_runner/regress/test_gc_cutoff.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 284a8c3563..0000000000
--- a/test_runner/regress/test_gc_cutoff.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-import subprocess
-
-import pytest
-from fixtures.neon_fixtures import NeonEnvBuilder, PgBin
-
-
-# Test gc_cutoff
-#
-# This test sets fail point at the end of GC, and checks that pageserver
-# normally restarts after it. Also, there should be GC ERRORs in the log,
-# but the fixture checks the log for any unexpected ERRORs after every
-# test anyway, so it doesn't need any special attention here.
-@pytest.mark.timeout(600)
-def test_gc_cutoff(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder, pg_bin: PgBin):
-    env = neon_env_builder.init_start(
-        initial_tenant_conf={
-            "gc_period": "10 s",
-            "gc_horizon": f"{1024 ** 2}",
-            "checkpoint_distance": f"{1024 ** 2}",
-            "compaction_period": "5 s",
-            # set PITR interval to be small, so we can do GC
-            "pitr_interval": "1 s",
-            "compaction_threshold": "3",
-            "image_creation_threshold": "2",
-        }
-    )
-
-    pageserver_http = env.pageserver.http_client()
-
-    # Use aggressive GC and checkpoint settings, so that we also exercise GC during the test
-    tenant_id = env.initial_tenant
-    endpoint = env.endpoints.create_start("main", tenant_id=tenant_id)
-    connstr = endpoint.connstr(options="-csynchronous_commit=off")
-    pg_bin.run_capture(["pgbench", "-i", "-s10", connstr])
-
-    pageserver_http.configure_failpoints(("after-timeline-gc-removed-layers", "exit"))
-
-    # Because this test does a rapid series of restarts of the same node, it's possible that
-    # we are restarted again before we can clean up deletion lists form the previous generation,
-    # resulting in a subsequent startup logging a warning.
-    env.pageserver.allowed_errors.append(".*Dropping stale deletions for tenant.*")
-
-    for _ in range(5):
-        with pytest.raises(subprocess.SubprocessError):
-            pg_bin.run_capture(["pgbench", "-P1", "-N", "-c5", "-T500", "-Mprepared", connstr])
-        env.pageserver.stop()
-        env.pageserver.start(extra_env_vars={"FAILPOINTS": "after-timeline-gc-removed-layers=exit"})