29 November 2001

Notification of Interests of Directors

Under the Billiton Employee Share Ownership Trust, all employees of
BHP Billiton Plc, including its executive directors, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust under provisions allowing the Trustee
discretion to distribute excess Trust assets, either on winding
up of the Trust or before.

As potential beneficiaries of the Trust, the executive directors,
Messrs P M Anderson and B P Gilbertson have an interest in the
balance of the shares in BHP Billiton Plc held in the Trust at
any one time.  Although such an interest confers no control over
the shares, it requires notification under the United Kingdom
Companies Act where it relates to shares in BHP Billiton Plc.
As part of a dual listed company structure, the Company has agreed
to adopt the better of the existing governance practices between
BHP Billiton Plc and BHP Billiton Limited.  As a result, the Company
voluntarily notifies to all Stock Exchanges such interests relating
to shares in BHP Billiton Limited as well as BHP Billiton Plc.

BHP Billiton Limited therefore announces that on 26 November 2001
Billiton ESOP Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Billiton Employee
Share Ownership Trust, sold 23,473 ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc
to a participant of its Restricted Share Scheme.

The executive directors have an interest in the balance held by the
Trust of 560 232 shares in BHP Billiton Plc following the above transfer.


K J Wood
Secretary

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