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4.1.5.16 — Loads on Walls Acting As Guards

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(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 this Subsection or 0.5 kPa acting outward, whichever produces the more critical effect.
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