FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person * Williamson Billie Ida (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O XL GROUP LTD ONE BERMUDIANA ROAD (Street) HAMILTON D0 HM08 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 02/15/2018	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol XL GROUP LTD [ XL ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Shares	29	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	Hannah Orowitz, Attorney in Fact for Billie I. Williamson	02/20/2018
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Billie Williamson

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECURITIES OWNERSHIP REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and
appoints each of Henry French, Kirstin Gould, Hannah Orowitz, Matthew Crusey,
Brian Zuro and Chris Tuininga, and each of them acting singly, as the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as
hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned to:

(1)	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and/or maintain (a) Forms 3, 4,
5 and 144 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of
XL Group Ltd, a Bermuda exempted company (the "Company"), with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges and the
Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, as amended from time to time (the "Exchange Act");

(2)	seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's
behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third
party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and
the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such
information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of
information; and

(3)	perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of each such
attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned
in connection with the foregoing.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1)	this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each such
attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such
attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

(2)	any documents prepared and/or executed by each such attorney-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will, subject to
any applicable law, be in such form and will contain such information and
disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary
or desirable;

(3)	neither the Company nor each such attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability
for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the respective requirements
of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to
comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the
undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

(4)	this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility
for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act,
including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the
Exchange Act.

The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the
foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that each such attorney-in-fact of,
for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this limited Power of Attorney.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the Company, attention the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 22 day of January, 2018.

                              /s/ Billie Ida Williamson
                              Signature


                              Billie Ida Williamson
                              Print Name


STATE OF:  Texas
COUNTY OF:  Dallas

On this, the 22nd day of January, 2018, before me a notary public, the
undersigned officer, personally appeared Billie Williamson, known to me (or
satisfactorily proven) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within
instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes therein
contained.


In witness hereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.

                             /s/ Christina J. Carrasco
                             Notary Public

CHRISTINA J CARRASCO
   Notary Public
  STATE OF TEXAS
My Comm. Exp. 04-29-2020
 Notary ID# 12650231-0

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