diff --git a/lib/private/Template/Base.php b/lib/private/Template/Base.php
index 0dd7d92d6be..55a765fad85 100644
--- a/lib/private/Template/Base.php
+++ b/lib/private/Template/Base.php
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ class Base {
 		// Include
 		ob_start();
 		try {
+			require_once __DIR__ . '/../legacy/template/functions.php';
 			include $file;
 			$data = ob_get_contents();
 		} catch (\Exception $e) {
diff --git a/lib/private/Template/Template.php b/lib/private/Template/Template.php
index b69d68b944f..ee85562091f 100644
--- a/lib/private/Template/Template.php
+++ b/lib/private/Template/Template.php
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ use OCP\Template\ITemplate;
 use OCP\Template\TemplateNotFoundException;
 use OCP\Util;
 
-require_once __DIR__ . '/../legacy/template/functions.php';
-
 class Template extends Base implements ITemplate {
 	private string $path;
 	private array $headers = [];
diff --git a/lib/private/legacy/OC_Template.php b/lib/private/legacy/OC_Template.php
index 77b25477d31..bccf99af65e 100644
--- a/lib/private/legacy/OC_Template.php
+++ b/lib/private/legacy/OC_Template.php
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 use OCP\Server;
 use OCP\Template\ITemplateManager;
 
-require_once __DIR__ . '/template/functions.php';
-
 /**
  * This class provides the templates for ownCloud.
  * @deprecated 32.0.0 Use \OCP\Template\ITemplateManager instead
diff --git a/tests/lib/TestCase.php b/tests/lib/TestCase.php
index cfed2b06c61..918edf7150e 100644
--- a/tests/lib/TestCase.php
+++ b/tests/lib/TestCase.php
@@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ abstract class TestCase extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	 * @param array $vars
 	 */
 	protected function assertTemplate($expectedHtml, $template, $vars = []) {
-		require_once __DIR__ . '/../../lib/private/legacy/template/functions.php';
-
 		$requestToken = 12345;
 		/** @var Defaults|\PHPUnit\Framework\MockObject\MockObject $l10n */
 		$theme = $this->getMockBuilder('\OCP\Defaults')