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BIL
BIBLT
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 Exchange
Australian Securities JSE Limited
Exchange
Date: 10 February 2010
For Immediately
Release:
Contact: Elizabeth Hobley
+44 20 7802 4054
Notification of Major Interest in Shares
The following notification was received yesterday, 9 February 2010, by BHP
Billiton Plc from Legal & General Group Plc relating to major interests in
shares of BHP Billiton Plc.
BHP Billiton Limited BHP Billiton Plc Registration number
ABN 49 004 028 077 3196209
Registered in Australia Registered in England and Wales
Registered Office: 180 Lonsdale Registered Office: Neathouse Place,
Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 London SW1V 1BH United KingdomTelephone
+61 1300 55 4757 Telephone +44 20 7802 4000
Facsimile +61 3 9609 3015 Facsimile +44 20 7802 4111
The BHP Billiton Group is headquartered in Australia
Financial Services Authority
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the BHP Billiton Plc
underlying issuer of existing shares
to which voting rights are attached:
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes
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) subject Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)
to the notification obligation:
4. Full name of shareholder(s) Legal & General Assurance (Pensions
(if different from 3.): Management) Limited (PMC)
05 February 2010
5. Date of the transaction and
date onwhich the threshold is
crossed or reached:
6. Date on which issuer notified: 09 February 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are L&G (From 3% to 4%)
crossed or reached:
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type Situation Resulting situation after the triggering
of shares previous to transaction
if possible the triggering
using the transaction
ISIN CODE
Number Number Number of voting % of voting
of of Number rights rights
Shares Voting of
Rights shares
Direct Indire Direct Indirec
ct t
Ordinary 88,190,706 4.01%
USD0.50 88,532,4 88,532,4
(As on 37 37
01/12/2009)
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of voting
Type of Expirat Exercise/ rights that may % of voting
financial ion Conversion be acquired if rights
instrument date Period the instrument
is exercised/
converted.
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying
Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Exerci Expira Exercis Number of voting % of voting
financial se tion e/ rights rights
instrument price date Convers instrument
ion refers to
period
Nomina Delta
l
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
4.01%
88,532,437
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct
and Indirect)
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) ( 88,532,437 - 4.01%= LGAS,
LGPL & PMC)
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct)
(LGIMHD) ( 79,523,389 - 3.60%= PMC)
Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH)
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC) (
79,523,389 - 3.60%= PMC)
Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL)
Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct) (LGPL)
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder: N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder N/A
will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to N/A
hold voting rights:
13. Additional information: Notification using the total voting
rights figure of 2,207,007,544
14. Contact name: Helen Lewis (LGIM)
15. Contact telephone number: 020 3124 3851
Date: 10/02/2010 17:35:01 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
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