ANSELL LIMITED — Major Shareholding Notification 2008

Oct 8, 2008

Form 604 Corporations Act 2001 Section 671B

Notice of change of interests of substantial holder

To ACN/ARSN

Ansell Limited (ANN) 004 085 330

1. Details of substantial holder

Name Barclays Group lodged by Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited ABN 33 001 804 566 (Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited)

There was a change in the interests of the substantial holder on

The previous notice was given to the company on

The previous notice was dated

06 October 2008

28 February 2008

28 February 2008

2. Previous and present voting power

The total number of votes attached to all the voting shares in the company or voting interests in the scheme that the substantial holder an associate had a relevant interest in when last required, and when now required, to give a substantial holding notice to the company or scheme, are as follows:

Class of securities	Previous	notice	Present notice	Present notice
	Person’s votes	Voting power	Person’s votes	Voting power
Ordinary	15,553,955	11.49%	14,247,879	10.45%

3. Changes in relevant interests

Particulars of each change in, or change on the nature of, a relevant interest of the substantial holder or an associate in voting securities of the company or scheme, since the substantial holder was last required to give a substantial holding notice to the company or scheme are as follows:

Date ofchange	Person whoserelevant interestchanged	Nature ofchange	Considerationgiven in relation tochange	Class and numberof securitiesAffected	Person’svotesaffected
06/10/08	Barclays Group	Decrease invoting power	Average price$10.911	Ordinary(1,306,076)	(1.04%)

4. Present relevant interests

Particulars of each relevant interest of the substantial holder in voting securities after the change are as follows:

Holder ofrelevant interest	Registered holder of securities	Nature ofrelevant interest	Class andnumber ofsecurities	Person’svotes
Barclays Group	JP Morgan & other custodians –See Annexure “A”	Annexure “A”	14,247,879	10.45%

5. Addresses

The addresses of persons named in this form are as follows:

Name	Address
Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited	Level 43,225 George Street,SydneyNSW 2000

Signature

_________________________________ Company Secretary Barclays Global Investors Australia

9 October 2008 Date

Barclays Global Investors Australia

Form 604 page 1 of 2

This is “Annexure A” of 1 page referred to in Form 604 Notice of change of interests of substantial holder

Relevant interest in Ansell Limited (“ANN”) held by members of the Barclays Group.

The list of Barclays entities and their respective holdings are as follows:

ASX		COMPANY
CODE	STOCK NAME		HOLDING	%
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd	1,596	-
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Global Investors Ltd	224,530	0.16
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Global Investors Ltd	496,910	0.37
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Life Assurance Co Ltd	33,400	0.02
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Bank PLC(Geneva)	20,000	0.01
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Bank Trust CompanyLtd	198	-
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Global Investors,N.A.	371,661	0.27
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Capital Securities Ltd	136,884	0.10
ANN	Ansell Limited	Barclays Global Investors Australia Ltd	12,962,700	9.52
			14,247,879	10.45

The JP Morgan Chase Bank Inc. and various other custodians (Custodians) hold shares in ANN as custodian and for which the members of the Barclays Group are either:

• the responsible entity or trustee of pooled investment products such as registered managed investment schemes (Funds); or

• the investment manager of Portfolios held for a number of institutional investors. The institutional investors are generally superannuation funds regulated under the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993 .

The holding of shares in ANN was acquired as part of the wide portfolio of Australian shares and units acquired for the Funds and the Portfolios.

The members of the Barclays Group and the Custodians may hold relevant interests due to the capacity of these entities to dispose of the shares in ANN.

Each investor in a Fund owns an undivided interest in the Fund’s assets, no client directly owns any asset of the Fund. The unitholding of each Fund varies from time to time as clients enter and withdraw from the Funds. The various institutional investors with portfolios delegate the management of the portfolios to the members of the Barclays Group.

___________________________ 9 October 2008 Company Secretary Date Barclays Global Investors Australia

Barclays Global Investors Australia

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