diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java
index b9770382c0484..a0b91261236b0 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndices;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.CanMatchNodeRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.CanMatchNodeResponse;
-import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchShardTask;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchType;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportActions;
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Releasable;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Releasables;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.TimeValue;
-import org.elasticsearch.core.UpdateForV9;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.Index;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexNotFoundException;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService;
@@ -1257,7 +1255,6 @@ private void parseSource(DefaultSearchContext context, SearchSourceBuilder sourc
         if (source == null) {
             return;
         }
-        validateSearchSource(source, context.scrollContext() != null);
         SearchShardTarget shardTarget = context.shardTarget();
         SearchExecutionContext searchExecutionContext = context.getSearchExecutionContext();
         context.from(source.from());
@@ -1453,49 +1450,6 @@ private void parseSource(DefaultSearchContext context, SearchSourceBuilder sourc
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Validates the incoming search request on the data node. These checks have been moved to the coordinating node.
-     * Validation is still performed on the data nodes to ensure that in a mixed cluster scenario, when the coordinating node is on an older
-     * version that does not yet perform validation, the shards make up for that.
-     * This method can be entirely removed in the next major version, when all nodes perform the validation when coordinating a search.
-     *
-     * @see SearchRequest#validate()
-     */
-    @UpdateForV9
-    private static void validateSearchSource(SearchSourceBuilder source, boolean hasScroll) {
-        if (source.trackTotalHitsUpTo() != null && source.trackTotalHitsUpTo() != SearchContext.TRACK_TOTAL_HITS_ACCURATE && hasScroll) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("disabling [track_total_hits] is not allowed in a scroll context");
-        }
-        if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(source.searchAfter()) == false) {
-            if (hasScroll) {
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("`search_after` cannot be used in a scroll context.");
-            }
-            if (source.from() > 0) {
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("`from` parameter must be set to 0 when `search_after` is used.");
-            }
-        }
-        if (source.collapse() != null) {
-            if (hasScroll) {
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("cannot use `collapse` in a scroll context");
-            }
-        }
-        if (source.slice() != null) {
-            if (source.pointInTimeBuilder() == null && (hasScroll == false)) {
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("[slice] can only be used with [scroll] or [point-in-time] requests");
-            }
-        }
-        if (source.storedFields() != null) {
-            if (source.storedFields().fetchFields() == false) {
-                if (source.fetchSource() != null && source.fetchSource().fetchSource()) {
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("[stored_fields] cannot be disabled if [_source] is requested");
-                }
-                if (source.fetchFields() != null) {
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("[stored_fields] cannot be disabled when using the [fields] option");
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Shortcut ids to load, we load only "from" and up to "size". The phase controller
      * handles this as well since the result is always size * shards for Q_T_F