28 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 31 October 2001
Billiton ESOP Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Billiton Employee
Share Ownership Trust, transferred 43 628 ordinary shares in
BHP Billiton Plc to participants of it's Restricted Share Scheme.

The executive directors have an interest in the balance held by the
Trust of 583 705 shares in BHP Billiton Plc following the above transfer.


K J Wood
Secretary


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