Holding(s) in Company

Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC
13 April 2004


                                  SCHEDULE 10

                   NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest
Lattice Group Pension Scheme (formerly British Gas Pension Schemes)

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

as in 2)above

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

Stargas Nominees Limited

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

Not Disclosed

6) Percentage of issued class

Not Disclosed

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

Not Disclosed

8) Percentage of issued class

Not Disclosed

9) Class of security

Ordinary 25p Shares

10) Date of transaction

Not Disclosed

11) Date company informed

9 April 2004

12) Total holding following this notification

11,393,575

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

2.5%

14) Any additional information

None

15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Barbara McFarlane - 0131 242 4129

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

Barbara McFarlane, Company Secretarial Assistant for Franklin Templeton
Investment Management Limited, Secretaries to Templeton Emerging Markets
Investment Trust PLC

Date of notification 13 April 2004




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