Directorate Change

Legal & General Group PLC
21 January 2004

STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT: BOARD CHANGES



Legal & General Group Plc ('Group') today announces that, at the conclusion of
its Annual General Meeting on 28 April 2004, Mr. Bernard Asher will retire as
Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Director, Chairman of the Remuneration
Committee and Non-Executive Director. Mr. Asher, aged 67, will have been a
Non-Executive Director of the Group for six years, the last four years of which
he has been Vice Chairman.

The Group Board has today resolved that Sir David Walker will be appointed Vice
Chairman, Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
upon Mr. Asher's retirement. He is appointed as a member of the Remuneration
Committee and will retire from the Audit Committee with immediate effect.

Chairman, Rob Margetts, commented that:

'Bernard has given tremendous service to the Board and its Committees during his
time with the Group. We wish him well in his retirement. We are delighted that
Sir David had agreed to take up this new responsibility.'

Mr. James Strachan is appointed as a member of the Audit Committee and the
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee with immediate effect. Mrs. Frances
Heaton will step down from the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in
order to take up the post of Trustee of both the Legal & General Group U.K.
Senior Pension Scheme and the Legal & General Group U.K. Pension and Assurance
Fund. In both cases Mrs. Heaton will be filling the position vacated by Mr.
Asher.





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