diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/brillig/brillig_gen/brillig_instructions/brillig_memory.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/brillig/brillig_gen/brillig_instructions/brillig_memory.rs
index 6f0814a41eb..0b728db4af4 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/brillig/brillig_gen/brillig_instructions/brillig_memory.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/brillig/brillig_gen/brillig_instructions/brillig_memory.rs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ impl<Registers: RegisterAllocator> BrilligBlock<'_, Registers> {
         if data.is_empty() {
             return;
         }
-        let item_types = typ.clone().element_types();
+        let item_types = typ.element_types();
 
         // Find out if we are repeating the same item over and over
         let first_item = data.iter().take(item_types.len()).copied().collect();
diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/interpreter/mod.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/interpreter/mod.rs
index 82233385cde..b025881fac7 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/interpreter/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/interpreter/mod.rs
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ impl<'ssa, W: Write> Interpreter<'ssa, W> {
         let is_slice = matches!(&result_type, Type::Slice(..));
 
         // The number of elements in the array must be a multiple of the number of element types
-        let element_types = result_type.clone().element_types();
+        let element_types = result_type.element_types();
         if element_types.is_empty() {
             if !elements.is_empty() {
                 return Err(internal(InternalError::MakeArrayElementCountMismatch {
diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/types.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/types.rs
index 86e779c1e87..990f8a078db 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/types.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/ir/types.rs
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ impl Type {
     /// to represent the type. This is 1 for every primitive type, and is the number of fields
     /// for any flattened tuple type.
     ///
-    /// Equivalent to `self.element_types().len()`, but doesn't consume the `self`.
+    /// Equivalent to `self.element_types().len()`.
     ///
     /// Panics if `self` is not a [`Type::Array`] or [`Type::Slice`].
     pub(crate) fn element_size(&self) -> usize {
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ impl Type {
     /// Return the types of items in this array/slice.
     ///
     /// Panics if `self` is not a [`Type::Array`] or [`Type::Slice`].
-    pub(crate) fn element_types(self) -> Arc<Vec<Type>> {
+    pub(crate) fn element_types(&self) -> Arc<Vec<Type>> {
         match self {
-            Type::Array(element_types, _) | Type::Slice(element_types) => element_types,
+            Type::Array(element_types, _) | Type::Slice(element_types) => element_types.clone(),
             other => panic!("element_types: Expected array or slice, found {other}"),
         }
     }