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BIL
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BIL - BHP Billiton Plc - Notification of Major Interest in Shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
Company Secretariat
Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc
To: London Stock Exchange cc: New York Stock
Australian Securities Exchange
Exchange JSE Limited
Date: 7 January 2010
Contact: Elizabeth Hobley
+44 20 7802 4054
Notification of Major Interest in Shares
The following notification was received yesterday, 6 January 2010, by BHP
Billiton Plc from Norges Bank relating to major interests in shares of BHP
Billiton Plc.
BHP Billiton Limited ABN 49 004 028 077 BHP Billiton Plc Registration number
3196209
Registered in Australia Registered in England and Wales
Registered Office: 180 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000 Registered Office: Neathouse Place,
London SW1V 1BH United Kingdom
Telephone +61 1300 55 4757
Facsimile +61 3 9609 3015 Telephone +44 20 7802 4000 Facsimile +44
20 7802 4111
The BHP Billiton Group is headquartered in Australia
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi
1. Identity of the issuer or the BHP Billiton Plc
underlying issuer of existing GB0000566504
shares to which voting rights are US05545E2090
attached: ii
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial
instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares
already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar
economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other
(please
specify):
3. Full name of person(s) Norges Bank
subject to the notification
obligation: iii
4. Full name of N/A
shareholder(s) (if different
from 3.):iv
5. Date of the transaction 5th January 2010
and date on which the
threshold is crossed or
reached: v
6. Date on which issuer 6th January 2010
notified:
7. Threshold(s) that is/are 3%
crossed or reached: vi, vii
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of Situation previous to the triggering
shares transaction
if possible using
the ISIN CODE
Number Number
Of Of
Shares Voting
Rights
66,448,983 66,448,983
GB0000566504
US05545E2090 58,600
58,600
Table continued
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number Number of voting % of voting rights x
of shares rights
Direct Direct xi Indirect xii Direct Indirect
64,945,015 64,945,015 2.94%
58,600 58,600 0.003%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
financial date xiii Conversion rights that may be rights
instrument Period xiv acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted.
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of % of voting
financial price date xvii Conversion voting rights xix, xx
instrument period rights
xviii instrument
refers to
CFD N/A N/A N/A 3,000 Nominal Delta
0.0001% 0.0001%
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
65,006,615 2.95%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting
rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if
applicable: xxi
N/A
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder: Norges Bank
11. Number of voting rights proxy N/A
holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will N/A
cease to hold voting rights:
13. Additional information: None
14. Contact name: Jonas Lexmark
15. Contact telephone number: +47 24 07 31 34
Date: 07/01/2010 14:25:01 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
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