Block Listing of Shares

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC
19 December 2005


                         BAILLIE GIFFORD SHIN NIPPON PLC

                            Block Listing of Shares


Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC (the Company) announces that an application has
been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange for the
block listing of 750,000  ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.

The Company may issue any or all of these shares for cash from time to time to
meet market demand for its shares, provided always that such issues will be made
at prices above the then prevailing net asset value per share.


                                                           Baillie Gifford & Co.
                                                             Company Secretaries
                                                                19 December 2005


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