Holding in Company

Halma PLC
26 July 2000


INTEREST NOTIFIED UNDER SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985


Halma p.l.c. received on 26 July 2000 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 47,826,748 shares, representing 13.27% 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                 12,903,700
GTINV           Northern Trust Co                    612,000
LICRF           Bankers Trust                        944,000
MOSER           Bankers Trust                      2,751,000
PATCH           Northern Trust Co                  1,338,000
SBC             Mellon Trust                       1,235,000
SIEBT           Northern Trust Co                 23,946,548
SOLAR           Daiwa Europe Bank                    759,000
TEXAS           Northern Trust Co                  1,367,000
TRUST           Bank of Bermuda                      866,500
VITAL           Northern Trust Co                  1,104,000
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                                         TOTAL    47,826,748
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Contact for further information:   Ms E C Tredway
                                   Company Secretary, Halma p.l.c.
                                   Tel: [phone]