Company Secretary Change

Standard Chartered PLC
01 September 2005


THE FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT MADE IN HONG KONG ON 1
SEPTEMBER 2005



                     STANDARD CHARTERED PLC (the 'Company')

                          CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY

Pursuant to Rule 13.51(5) of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on
the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the 'Listing Rules'), the Company
announces that it has appointed Mr. Charles Bennett Brown to replace Mr. David
J. Brimacombe as group company secretary with effect from 1 September, 2005.
Mr. Brown, a qualified Chartered Secretary, become a Graduate of the Institute
of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in England in 1991, an
Associate of the ICSA in 1993 and a Fellow of the ICSA in 1997.  From 2000 to
2005, he was Deputy Company Secretary of Allied Domecq PLC, a FTSE 100 company
listed in London and New York, and prior to that he held various senior company
secretarial positions in international listed companies.


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