4 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 30 November 2001 Billiton
ESOP Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Billiton Employee Share Ownership
Trust, sold 2 728 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 557 504 shares in BHP Billiton Plc following the above transfer.



K J Wood
Secretary


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