SSH: SPT: SSH Notice (Maple-Brown Abbott Limited)

22 Jan 2010 10:45 am

SPT 22/01/2010 SSH

REL: 1045 HRS Spotless Group Limited

SSH: SPT: SSH Notice (Maple-Brown Abbott Limited)

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

To: NZX And: Spotless Group Date this disclosure made: 21 January 2010

Substantial security holder(s) giving disclosure Name(s): Maple-Brown Abbott Limited Contact details: Dean Smedley, +61 2 8226 6240, dsmedley@maple-brownabbott.com.au Date on which substantial security holder(s) began to have substantial holding: 18 January 2010 as a result of the dual listing of Spotless Group. Total percentage held is based on the last Substantial Shareholding Notice lodged with the ASX on 4 April 2008.

Summary of substantial holding to which disclosure relates Class of listed voting securities: Ordinary Shares Summary for: Maple-Brown Abbott Limited For this disclosure,-- (a) total number held in class: 17,945,903 (b) total in class: 217,224,352 (c) total percentage held in class: 8.26%

Details of relevant interests currently in substantial holding Details for: Maple-Brown Abbott Limited Nature of relevant interest(s): Refer to Annexure 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: Dual listing of SPT on the NZX on 18 January 2010.

Additional information Nature of connection between substantial security holders: N/A Address(es) of substantial security holder(s): Level 30, 20 Bond St, Sydney, NSW Australia 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: N/A

Declaration I, Dean Smedley, 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:00190420 For:SPT Type:SSH Time:2010-01-22:10:45:10

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