6 December 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, B P Gilbertson and C W Goodyear 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 4 December 2001 Billiton ESOP
Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Billiton Employee Share Ownership Trust,
transferred 3 805 ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc to a participant of
its Co-Investment Plan.

The executive directors have an interest in the balance held by the
Trust of 553 699 shares in BHP Billiton Plc following the above transfer.



K J Wood
Secretary

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