SSH: MHI: SSH (Accident Compensation Corporation)

13 Apr 2010 2:22 pm

MHI 13/04/2010 SSH

REL: 1422 HRS Michael Hill International Limited

SSH: MHI: SSH (Accident Compensation Corporation)

Disclosure of beginning to have substantial holding Section 22, Securities Markets Act 1988

To: NZX Limited announce@nzx.com And: Michael Hill International Limited

Date this disclosure made: Apr 13, 2010

Substantial security holder(s) giving disclosure

Name(s): Accident Compensation Corporation ("ACC")

Nicholas Bagnall Blair Tallott Ian Graham

Contact details (name of person for queries, if not the substantial security holder, and telephone and email details): Kym Nijsse +64 4 918 7067, kym.nijsse@acc.co.nz

Date on which substantial security holder(s) began to have substantial holding: Apr 9, 2010

Summary of substantial holding to which disclosure relates

Class of listed voting securities: Michael Hill International Limited Ordinary Shares (MHI)

Summary for: Accident Compensation Corporation ("ACC")

For this disclosure,-- Nicholas Bagnall Blair Tallott Ian Graham

(a) Total number held in class: 19,830,057

(b) Total in class: 382,468,900 (c) Total percentage held in class: 5.185%

Details of relevant interests currently in substantial holding

Details for: ACC Nature of relevant interest(s): Beneficial owner of securities under s 5 (1) (b) of the Securities Markets Act. No relevant agreement document needs to be attached under regulation 11.

For that relevant interest, (a) Number held in class: 19,830,057

(b) Percentage held in class: 5.185%

(c) Current registered holder(s) of securities:

ACC via New Zealand Central Securities Depository Limited (NZCSD) (d) Registered holder(s) of securities once transfers registered: n/a

Details for: Nicholas Bagnall Blair Tallott Ian Graham

Nature of relevant interest(s): Qualified powers to exercise control of rights to vote and of acquisition or disposal of some or all of the securities of which the Accident Compensation Corporation ("ACC") is the beneficial owner under ss 5(1)(c)and 5 (1)(d) of the Securities Markets Act. Further to regulation 11(2)(b), the material terms of this arrangement are that powers are subject to ACC investment policies and the decisions of the ACC Investment Committee.

For that relevant interest, (a) Number held in class: 19,830,057

(b) Percentage held in class: 5.185%

(c) Current registered holder(s) of securities:

ACC via New Zealand Central Securities Depository Limited (NZCSD) (d) Registered holder(s) of securities once transfers registered: n/a

Details of transactions and events giving rise to person beginning to have substantial holding Details of the transactions or other events requiring disclosure under the instructions to this form: On market purchase of 2,000,000 shares for a consideration on NZD 1,365,440 on the 9th April

Additional information Nicholas Bagnall Blair Tallott Ian Graham

are employees and portfolio managers for ACC. Under current ACC investment policies, they have the discretion to exercise control over some or all of the rights to vote and acquisition or disposal of some or all of the securities of which ACC is the beneficial owner.

Address(es) of substantial security holder(s): ACC : 81 -83 Molesworth Street, Wellington

Name of any other person believed to have given, or believed to be required to give, a disclosure under the Act in relation to the securities to which this disclosure relates:

Declaration I, Kym Nijsse, declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information contained in this disclosure is correct and that I am duly authorised to make this disclosure by all persons for whom it is made. End CA:00193680 For:MHI Type:SSH Time:2010-04-13:14:22:13

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