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BIL - BHP Billiton Plc - Notice of Dividend Currency Exchange Rates - 2012 Interim Dividend BHP Billiton Plc Share code: BIL ISIN: GB0000566504 5 March 2012 To: Australian Securities Exchange cc: New York Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange JSE Limited Notice of Dividend Currency Exchange Rates - 2012 Interim Dividend Name of BHP Billiton BHP Billiton Plc entities Limited ABN 49 004 028 077 REG NO 3196209 On 8 February 2012 we declared an interim dividend for the half year ended 31 December 2011 of 55 US cents. Included in the announcement was the advice that the currency conversion for Australian cents, British pence and New Zealand cents would be based on the foreign currency exchange rates on the Record Date, 2 March 2012, and for South African cents the last date to trade on the JSE Limited, was 24 February 2012(1). The following table details the currency exchange rates applicable for the dividend: Dividend 55 US Exchange Rate Dividend per cents ordinary share in local currency Australian cents 1.076917 51.071717 British pence 1.590144 34.588062 New Zealand cents 0.833996 65.947559 South African 7.617500 418.962500 cents(1) The dividend will be paid on Thursday, 22 March 2012. Jane McAloon Group Company Secretary (1) On 24 February 2012 we announced to the London Stock Exchange and the JSE Limited the currency exchange rate applicable to the dividend payable in South African cents. Further information on BHP Billiton can be found at: www.bhpbilliton.com Sponsor: Absa Capital (the investment banking division of Absa Bank Limited, affiliated with Barclays Capital) Media Relations Investor Relations Australia Australia Antonios Papaspiropoulos James Agar Tel: +61 3 9609 3830 Mobile: Tel: +61 3 9609 2222 Mobile: +61 467 807 +61 477 325 803 064 email: email: James.Agar@bhpbilliton.com Antonios.Papaspiropoulos@bhpbill iton.com Andrew Gunn Tel: +61 3 9609 3575 Mobile: +61 439 558
Kelly Quirke 454 Tel: +61 3 9609 2896 Mobile: email: Andrew.Gunn@bhpbilliton.com +61 429 966 312 email: United Kingdom and South Africa Kelly.Quirke@bhpbilliton.com Brendan Harris Fiona Martin Tel: +44 20 7802 4131 Mobile: +44 7990 Tel: +61 3 9609 2211 Mobile: 527 726 +61 427 777 908 email: Brendan.Harris@bhpbilliton.com email: Fiona.Martin2@bhpbilliton.com Tara Dines Tel : +44 20 7802 7113 Mobile : +44 7825
United Kingdom 342 232 Email : Tara.Dines@bhpbilliton.com Ruban Yogarajah Tel: +44 20 7802 4033 Mobile: Americas +44 7827 082 022 email: Scott Espenshade Ruban.Yogarajah@bhpbilliton.com Tel: +1 713 599 6431 Mobile: +1 713 208 8565
Americas email: Scott.Espenshade@bhpbilliton.com Jaryl Strong Tel: +1 713 499 5548 Mobile: +1 281 222 6627 email: Jaryl.Strong@bhpbilliton.com
BHP Billiton Limited ABN 49 004 BHP Billiton Plc Registration number 028 077 3196209 Registered in Australia Registered in England and Wales Registered Office: 180 Lonsdale Registered Office: Neathouse Place Street London SW1V 1BH United Kingdom Melbourne Victoria 3000 Tel +44 20 7802 4000 Fax +44 20 7802 4111 Australia Tel +61 1300 55 4757 Fax +61 3 9609 3015 Members of the BHP Billiton Group which is headquartered in Australia Date: 05/03/2012 07:11:33 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited (`JSE`). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.
