Result of AGM

Smiths Group PLC
22 November 2006

22 NOVEMBER 2006

SMITHS GROUP PLC - RESULT OF AGM

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.18 R

The Company is pleased to announce that all the resolutions proposed at the
Annual General Meeting held on 21 November 2006 were subject to polls and were
passed by the necessary majority.

Details of the results of the polls on the resolutions are shown below and will
be posted on the Company's website, www.smiths.com.  A summary of the questions
answered at the Meeting will be available on the Company's website shortly.

Resolutions                       Votes for   %    Votes against   %        Votes total        Votes
                                                                                            withheld

1    Adoption of                321,518,473 99.90        309,001 0.10       321,827,474    6,714,607
     Report and Accounts

2    Approval of Directors'     314,488,690 98.51      4,751,708 1.49       319,240,398    9,304,230
     Remuneration Report

3    Declaration of Final       325,222,256 99.94        193,730 0.06       325,415,986    3,128,738
     Dividend

4    Reappointment of           323,049,465 99.58      1,363,116 0.42       324,412,581    4,132,143
     Mr K O Butler-Wheelhouse

5    Reappointment of D J       326,421,500 99.61      1,269,572 0.39       327,691,072      852,487
     Ferrie

6    Reappointment of           326,538,819 99.65      1,151,156 0.35       327,689,975      854,594
     Sir Kevin Tebbit

7    Reappointment of           326,864,885 99.74        857,693 0.26       327,722,578      822,146
     PricewaterCoopers LLP

8    Auditor's remuneration     326,923,858 99.70        980,565 0.30       327,904,423      640,301

9    Powers under Article 6     320,628,617 97.85      7,041,406 2.15       327,670,023      872,033

10  Powers under Article 7      327,598,557 99.97         82,427 0.03       327,680,984      863,585

11  Authority to make market    327,564,417 99.90        340,267 0.10       327,904,684      638,362
    purchases of shares

12  Adoption of new Articles    318,460,577 98.75      4,037,037 1.25       322,497,614    6,046,423
    of Association



Notes:

(i)   The votes 'for' figures include those votes giving the Chairman discretion
on casting the votes.

(ii)   A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total
number of votes cast on a resolution or in the calculation of the percentages of
the votes cast for or against a resolution.

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.11 R

Sir Julian Horn-Smith retired as a director of the Company at the conclusion of
the Annual General Meeting yesterday.

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.2 R

The Company has forwarded to the Document Viewing Facility of the UK Listing
Authority two copies of the resolutions not constituting ordinary business which
were passed at the Annual General Meeting.

The above-mentioned copies will shortly be available for viewing at the Document
Viewing Facility, at the address below, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm on every weekday
except bank holidays.

Document Viewing Facility
UK Listing Authority
The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London  E14 5HS

Tel : [phone]

Printed copies may be obtained by writing to The Deputy Group Secretary, Smiths
Group plc, 765 Finchley Road, London NW11 8DS.


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