BHP Group Limited — Major Shareholding Notification 2008

Sep 9, 2008

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Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc To: Company Announcements Office cc: New York Stock Exchange The London Stock Exchange Swiss Stock Exchange JSE Limited Company Announcements Office Deutsche Bank The Australian Stock Exchange UBS Zurich Date: 9 September 2008 For Release: Immediately Contact: Ines Watson + 44 (0)20 7802 4176

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

The following notification was received on 8 September 2008 by BHP Billiton Plc from Lehman Brothers International (Europe) 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 INTERESTS IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer BHP Billiton Plc 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 An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached An event changing the breakdown of voting rights Other (please specify): 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the Lehman Brothers International notification obligation: (Europe) 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3): N/A 5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the 05/09/08 threshold is crossed or reached if different): 6. Date on which issuer notified: 08/09/08 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 5% 8. Notified details: N/A

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of	Situation previous to	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares	the Triggering
if possible using	transaction
the ISIN CODE	Number ofSharesNumber ofVotingRights	Number ofsharesDirect	Number of votingrightsDirectIndirect		% of votingrightsDirectIndirect
GB0000566504	95,927,93295,927,932	127,634,299	127,634,299	N/A	5.78%N/A

B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financialinstrument	Expirationdate	Exercise/ ConversionPeriod/ Date		Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.	% of votingrights
N/A
Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights			% of voting rights
127,634,299			5.78%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

N/A

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:

N/A N/A N/A

N/A

13. Additional information: 14. Contact name: Olanike Bola-Lateef 15. Contact telephone number: +44 (0)20 7102 8709