GPT GROUP — Regulatory Filings 2003

Apr 2, 2003

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BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS

то	ASX/GPT Management Limited
Fax No.	1900 999 279
From	Elaine Cheung
	Compliance Manager
Total Pages	3 (incl)
Date	3 April 2003
Subject	Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder

ASX Company Announcements Attention: Company Secretary, GPT Management Limited

Please find attached the following in relation to the General Property Trust:

• Form 605 Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder; and i.
• ii. Annexure A.

Yours sincerely

Elaine^[Cheung Compliance Manager Barclays Global Investors Australia

Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited ABN 33001804566

AFS Licence No. 225398

Level 1, 111 Harrington Street, Sydney NSW 2000 P.O. Box N43 Grosvenor Place, NSW 1220

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Form 605

Corporations Act 2001 Section 6718

Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder

General Property Trust To ACN/ARSN 090 110 357

1. Details of substantial holder

Name	Barclays Group ("Barclays")
ABN		33 001 804 566 (Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited)
holder on	The holder ceased to be a substantial	25/3/03
company on	The previous notice was given to the	28/1/03

28/1/03 The previous notice was dated

2. Changes in relevant interests

Particulars of each change in, or change in the nature of, a relevant interests 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: $\mathcal{L}_{\mathcal{A}}$

Date of l change	Person whose relevant interest changed	Nature of change	Consideration aiven in relation to change	Class and number of securities affected	Person's votes affected
25/3/03	Barclays – see Annexure A	Sale on market	On market	96.943,524	4.97%

3. Changes in association

The persons who have becomes associates of, ceased to be associates of, or have changed the nature of their association with, the substantial holder in relation to voting interests in the company or scheme are as follows:

Name and ACN/ARSN (if applicable)	Nature of association
	See Annexure A

4. Addresses

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

Name	Address
Barclays Global Investors	1 17111 Harrington Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Australia Limited

Signature

f.

Christopher Robson Company Secretary Barclays Global Investors Australia

Date

3/4/03

Barclays Global Investors Australia

This is "Annexure A" of 1 page referred to in Form 605 Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder

Relevant interest in General Property Trust held by the Barclays Group ("Berclays").

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

ASX COD E	STOCK NAME	HOLDING	%	ICOMPANY
GPT	General Property Trust	101.613	0.0052	Barclays Nikko Global Investors Ltd
GPT	General Property Trust	684,780	0.0351	Barclays Global Fund Advisors
GPT	General Property Trust	1,858,632	0.0953	Barclays Capital Securities Ltd
GPT	General Property Trust	2,019,359	0.1036	Barclays Global Investors Japan Trust & Banking
GPT	General Property Trust	20,368,564	1.0447	Barclays Global Investors, N.A.
GPT	General Property Truet	71,910,576	3.6883	Barclays Global Investors Australia Ltd
		96,943,524	4.9722

The JP Morgan Chase Bank Inc. and various other custodians (Custodians) hold shares in General Property Trust (GPT) as custodian and for which Barclays is either:

• the responsible entity or trustee of pooled investment products such as registered managed ł. investment schemes (Funds); or
• the investment manager of Portfolios held for a number of institutional investors. The institutional $\bullet$ investors are generally superannualion funds regulated under the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993.

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

Barclays and the Custodians may hold relevant interests due to the capacity of these entities to dispose of the shares in GPT.

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 Barclays.

$3/4/03$

Christopher Robson Company Secretary Barclays Global Investors Australia