Directorate Change

Halma PLC
14 July 2004


                                 Halma p.l.c.


                              BOARD APPOINTMENT


Halma, the leading safety and environmental technology group, announces the
appointment of Andrew Williams as an Executive Director of the Group with
immediate effect.

Andrew Williams, 37, joined Halma in 1994 as Manufacturing Director of Palmer
Environmental, a company within the Group's water sector, and became Managing
Director of that company in 1997.  He was appointed Assistant Divisional Chief
Executive in 2001 and Divisional Chief Executive in 2002.   He has played an
important part in growing Halma's position in the water leak instrumentation
market and accelerating the pace of new product innovation across several of the
Group's businesses.

Andrew Williams holds outstanding options in respect of 159,470 ordinary shares
in the Group at a weighted average exercise price per share of 138.18 pence.

Andrew Williams has not held any directorships of publicly quoted companies in
the last five years.  There are no further details to disclose under paragraph
6.F.2(b) to (g) of the Listing Rules.



For further information, please contact:


Stephen O'Shea, Chief Executive                         Tel [phone]
Halma p.l.c.


Rachel Hirst/Andrew Jaques                              Tel [phone]
Hogarth Partnership Limited




A copy of this announcement, together with other information about Halma, may 
be viewed on its website: www.halma.com





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