Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund Declares October 2006 Cash Distribution

19 October 2006

TORONTO – Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX: MPT.UN – “MPT”, the “Fund”) today declared a cash distribution for the month of October 2006 of $0.08583 per trust unit. The distribution will be paid on November 30, 2006 to unitholders of record at the close of trading on October 31, 2006.

A distribution of $0.08583 per unit will also be paid on November 30, 2006 to holders of Class B Exchangeable Units of MPT LTC Holding LP, an indirect subsidiary entity of the Fund, of record on October 31, 2006.

About Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund
MPT invests in infrastructure assets with an emphasis on power infrastructure. MPT’s strategy is to acquire and actively manage a high-quality portfolio of long-life infrastructure assets to improve their financial performance and provide growing and sustainable distributions to unitholders for the long term. MPT’s infrastructure portfolio includes Cardinal, a 156MW gas-fired cogeneration power station in Ontario, and a 45% interest in Leisureworld, a leading long-term care provider in Ontario with over 30 years operating experience. MPT is managed by a wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Limited and a member of the Macquarie group.

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