diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/newarchdefaults/DefaultComponentsRegistry.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/newarchdefaults/DefaultComponentsRegistry.cpp
index f2f9cb031eea27..f9e5de7f3fc07b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/newarchdefaults/DefaultComponentsRegistry.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/newarchdefaults/DefaultComponentsRegistry.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include <CoreComponentsRegistry.h>
 #include <fbjni/fbjni.h>
+#include <react/debug/react_native_assert.h>
 #include <react/renderer/componentregistry/ComponentDescriptorProviderRegistry.h>
 #include <react/renderer/components/rncore/ComponentDescriptors.h>
 
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ std::shared_ptr<const ComponentDescriptorProviderRegistry>
 DefaultComponentsRegistry::sharedProviderRegistry() {
   auto providerRegistry = CoreComponentsRegistry::sharedProviderRegistry();
 
+  react_native_assert(
+      DefaultComponentsRegistry::registerComponentDescriptorsFromEntryPoint &&
+      "'registerComponentDescriptorsFromEntryPoint' was not initialized in 'JNI_OnLoad'");
+
   (DefaultComponentsRegistry::registerComponentDescriptorsFromEntryPoint)(
       providerRegistry);