Record date

Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC
22 March 2006

                            ARBUTHNOT BANKING GROUP PLC

                                 22 March 2006




The Preliminary Announcement of the Group Results for the year ended 31 December
2005 inadvertently referred to the Record Date for the Final Dividend, payable
on 25 May 2006 subject to the approval of shareholders at the Annual General
Meeting, as being 27 April 2006.  The Record Date should be 28 April 2006.



J. R. Kaye

Secretary


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