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BIL
BIBLT
BHP Billiton Plc - Transaction in Shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB000056650
Date: 19 September 2006
BHP BILLITON PLC - TRANSACTION IN SHARES
BHP Billiton Limited announces that on 19 September 2006 it purchased 1,355,000
ordinary shares of BHP Billiton Plc at an average price of 914.2195 pence per
ordinary share.
As part of the Group"s capital management programme, it is intended that all of
the purchased shares will be held by BHP Billiton Limited until such time as a
decision is made to cancel, sell or transfer the shares. No shares may be
cancelled unless shareholder approval has been obtained for such cancellation.
There is currently no intention to resell these shares into the market.
In addition, while these shares are held by BHP Billiton Limited, it will not
exercise any voting rights attaching to these shares.
Following the above purchase, BHP Billiton Plc holds 25,420,000 of its ordinary
shares as treasury shares and BHP Billiton Limited holds 1,355,000 of the
ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc, for a total of 26,775,000 shares. The
total number of BHP Billiton Plc ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held
as treasury shares and shares held by BHP Billiton Limited) is 2,441,372,002.
For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations Company Secretary Company Secretary
Mark Lidiard BHP Billiton Plc BHP Billiton Limited
Office: Robert Franklin Jane McAloon
+44 (0) 20 7802 4156 Office: Office:
Mobile: +44 (0) 20 7802 4116 + +61 3 9609 2445
+44 (0) 77 6993 4942 Mobile:
+44 (0) 7824 302684
Further information on BHP Billiton can be found on our internet site:
www.bhpbilliton .com
Australia United Kingdom
Samantha Evans, Media Relations Mark Lidiard, Investor & Media Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 2898 Tel: +44 20 7802 4156
Mob: +61 400 693 915 Mob: +44 7769 934 942
email: Samantha.Evans@bhpbilliton.com email: Mark.Lidiard@bhpbilliton.com
Jane Belcher, Investor Relations Illtud Harri, Media Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 3952 Tel: +44 20 7802 4195
Mob: +61 4 417 031 653 Mob: +44 7920 237 246
email: Jane.Belcher@bhpbilliton.com email: Illtud.Harri@bhpbilliton.com
United States South Africa
Tracey Whitehead, Investor Relations Alison Gilbert, Investor Relations
Tel: +44 20 7802 4031 Tel SA: +27 11 376 2121 or
Mob: +44 7917 648 093 UK: +44 20 7802 4183
email: Tracey.Whitehead@bhpbilliton.com email: Alison.Gilbert@bhpbilliton.com
Date: 20/09/2006 07:18:05 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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