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Notification of Major Interest in Shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Registration number: 3196209
Registered in England and Wales
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc
Date: 01 July 2014
To: London Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
CC: JSE Limited
New York Stock Exchange
For release: Immediately
Contact: Prakash Kakkad +44 (0) 20 7802 7410
BHP Billiton Plc – Notification of Major Interest in Shares
The following corrected notification was received on 30 June 2014 by BHP Billiton Plc from Aberdeen
Asset Managers Limited relating to major interests in shares of BHP Billiton Plc further to the notification
released by BHP Billiton Plc on 3 April 2014.
BHP Billiton Limited ABN 49 004 028 077 BHP Billiton Plc Registration number 3196209
Registered in Australia Registered in England and Wales
Registered Office: 171 Collins Street Registered Office: Neathouse Place
Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia London SW1V 1LH United Kingdom
Tel +61 1300 55 4757 Fax +61 3 9609 3015 Tel +44 20 7802 4000 Fax +44 20 7802 4111
Members of the BHP Billiton group which is headquartered in Australia
Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa Proprietary Limited
For filings with the FCA include the annex
For filings with issuer exclude the annex
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES i
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which voting rights are BHP Billiton PLC
attached: ii
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
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): Acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group Limited X
from Lloyds Banking Group on 31 March 2014.
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited (and/or acting for
notification obligation: iii
its affiliates) as discretionary investment manager on
behalf of multiple managed portfolios
4. Full name of shareholder(s)
(if different from 3.): iv
5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or 31 March 2014
reached: v
6. Date on which issuer notified: 30 June 2014 (see Section 13)
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or 5%
reached: vi, vii
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares to the triggering
transaction
if possible using Number Number Number Number of % of voting
the ISIN CODE of of of shares voting rights x
Shares Voting rights
Rights
Di
re
Direct ct Indirect xii Direct Indirect
xi
GB0000566504 82,076,656 82,076,656 114,065,683 114,065,683 5.40%
GB0000566504 19,578,645 19,578,645 19,578,645 19,578,645 0.93%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date xiii Conversion rights that may be rights
Period xiv acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted.
BHP Billiton June 14
PUT Option 20/06/2014 164,000 0.01%
BHP Billiton July 14
PUT Option 20/07/2014 75,000 0.00%
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Exercise Expiratio Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument price n date xvii Conversio rights instrument rights xix, xx
n refers to
period xviii
Nominal Delta
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
133,883,328* 6.34%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
voting rights:
13. Additional information: *Please note that there is no change to the number
of voting rights held. This is an amendment to
Section 8 total only further to the notification made
by Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited to the issuer
on 02 April 2014.
14. Contact name: Kirsty Lyons
15. Contact telephone number: 01224 404111
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