Holding in Company

Halma PLC
11 April 2001


INTEREST NOTIFIED UNDER SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985


Halma p.l.c. has today received notification from Silchester International
Investors Limited, acting as investment manager for a number of large
institutional investors and commingled funds, that as a result of recent
purchases of ordinary shares in Halma p.l.c. on behalf of its clients, it now
has control over 54,706,748 shares  This represents 15.15% of the issued
ordinary share capital of the Company.

Silchester International Investors Limited do not act as custodian, and
therefore the shares are not held in their own name, but in the nominee name
of the custodian banks of their clients, as follows:

Silchester
Account         Nominee                         No of Shares 

GROUP           Northern Trust Co                 13,703,700
GTINV           Northern Trust Co                    732,000
LICRF           Bankers Trust                      1,025,000
MOSER           Bankers Trust                      3,097,000
PATCH           Northern Trust Co                  1,534,000
SBC             Mellon Trust                       1,472,000
SIEBT           Northern Trust Co                 28,698,548
SOLAR           Daiwa Europe Bank                    680,000
TEXAS           Northern Trust Co                  1,629,000
TRUST           Bank of Bermuda                      905,500
VITAL           Northern Trust Co                  1,230,000
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                                         TOTAL    54,706,748
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Contact for further information:   Ms E C Tredway
                                   Company Secretary, Halma p.l.c.
                                   Tel: [phone]