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BIL - BHP Billiton Plc - Final Notification of Interests of directors and
connected persons
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
05 October 2007
Final Notification of Interests of Directors and Connected Persons
(Australian Stock Exchange Listing Rules Appendix 3Z)
Name of BHP Billiton BHP Billiton Plc
entities Limited
ABN 49 004 028 077 REG NO 3196209
As part of a dual listed company structure, the Group voluntarily notifies all
stock exchanges on which either BHP Billiton Limited or BHP Billiton Plc have
primary or secondary listings, all those interests of directors and persons
discharging managerial responsibilities of both entities in the securities of
both entities (and changes to those interests) which are required to be
disclosed under the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Listing Rules, the
Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the United Kingdom
Listing Authority, the Australian Corporations Act, the United Kingdom Companies
Acts and the Group`s Securities Dealing Code.
This final notification is filed in accordance with the ASX Listing Rules which
requires the following information concerning a director to be reported on
retirement from that office.
We (the entities) advise the following information under ASX Listing Rule
3.19A.3 and as agent for the director for the purposes of section 205G of the
Australian Corporations Act and otherwise in accordance with the foregoing
policy.
Name of director Mr C W Goodyear
Date of last notice 27 August 2007
Date of cessation as a 30 September 2007
director
Part 1 - Director`s relevant interests in securities
Included in this Part are:
* in the case of a trust, interests in the trust made available by the
responsible entity of the trust;
* details of the circumstance giving rise to the relevant interest; and
* the relevant interests of Connected Persons of the director.
Name of holder and nature Number and class of securities
of interest
Mr C W Goodyear 916,151 ordinary fully paid shares of BHP
Billiton Limited
Cede and Company (indirect 41,302 American Depositary Shares of BHP
interest, Mr C W Goodyear Billiton Limited (equivalent to 82,604
beneficial owner) ordinary fully paid shares of BHP Billiton
Limited)
Cede and Company (indirect 1,000 American Depositary Shares of BHP
interest, Mr C W Goodyear Billiton Plc (equivalent to 2,000 ordinary
beneficial owner) fully paid shares of US$0.50 each of BHP
Billiton Plc)
Part 2 - Director`s interests in contracts other than as described in Part 3
Detail of contract -
Nature of interest -
Name of registered holder -
(if issued securities)
No. and class of -
securities to which
interest relates
Part 3 - Director`s interests in options or other rights granted by the entities
Date of grant 23 April 1999 (ESP)
3 April 2000 (ESP)
8 November 2001 (PSP)
21 November 2003 (GIS)
3 December 2004 (LTIP)
5 December 2005 (GIS & LTIP)
7 December 2006 (GIS & LTIP)
Total amount paid (if Nil
any) for the grant
Description of Ordinary fully paid shares of BHP Billiton
securities involved: Limited under the:
class; number - Employee Share Plan (ESP)
- Performance Share Plan (PSP)
- Group Incentive Scheme (GIS)
- Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP")
Exercise price (if fixed April 1999 ESP Options $6.92
at time of grant) or April 2000 ESP Options $7.60
indication that price is November 2003 GIS Options $11.11
to be fixed at time of December 2004 GIS Options $15.39
exercise
Remaining awards are zero priced options
Total number of 1,021,338 vested but not exercised Options
securities over which under the ESP and GIS over 1,575,188 ordinary
options or other rights shares of BHP Billiton Limited
held at the date of this
notice 14,660 vested but not exercised Performance
Rights under the PSP over 15,716 ordinary
shares of BHP Billiton Limited
76,569 vested but not exercised GIS Deferred
Shares (ordinary shares of BHP Billiton
Limited)
56,691 GIS Deferred Shares (ordinary shares of
BHP Billiton Limited) (unvested) and will vest
in full on 1 January 2008 when Mr Goodyear
retires from the BHP Billiton Group.
1,692,558 Performance Shares (ordinary share of
BHP Billiton Limited under the LTIP) (unvested)
of which 864,791 LTIP Performance Shares will
lapse on 1 January 2008 when Mr Goodyear
retires from BHP Billiton. He will retain an
interest in 827,767 Performance Shares which
have been pro-rated to reflect his period of
employment from the commencement of the
relevant performance period to 1 January 2008.
The retained Performance Shares will only
become exercisable to the extent that the
performance hurdles are met at the end of the
original performance periods in August 2009,
August 2010 and August 2011.
Part 4 - Contact details
Name of authorised Ms F Smith - BHP Billiton Limited
officers responsible for
making this notification Mrs I Watson - BHP Billiton Plc BHP
on behalf of the entities Billiton Plc
Contact details Ms F Smith Tel: +61 3 9609 3179
Fax: +61 3 9609 4372
Mrs I Watson Tel: + 44 20 7802 4176
Fax: + 44 20 7802 3176
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