4.1.5.16.Loads on Walls Acting As Guards

(1) Where the floor elevation on one side of a wall, including a wall around a shaft, is more than 600 mm higher than
  the elevation of the floor or ground on the other side, the wall shall be designed to resist the appropriate outward lateral
  design loads prescribed elsewhere in Subsection 4.1.5. or 0.5 kPa acting outward, whichever produces the more critical
  effect.

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