Act 9 378. Idle Person. Penal Code Act 2008 (1) The term “idle person” means— (a) any person who being able wholly or in part to maintain himself or herself or his or her family willfully neglects or refuses to do so; (b) any person who wanders about or places himself or herself in any street or public place to beg or cause or encourages children to do so unless from age or infirmity he or she is unable to earn his or her living; and (c) any person who has no settled home and has no ostensible means of subsistence and cannot give a satisfactory account of himself or herself, (2) Whoever conducts himself or herself as and idle person commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or with a fine or with both. Explanation— 379. In order to convict a person under paragraph (c) all the things mentioned must be proved. A nomad cannot be convicted because he or she has no settled home if he or she has either apparent means of subsistence or gives a satisfactory account of himself or herself. Vagabond. (1) The term “vagabond” means— (a) any person who after being convicted as an idle person, commits any of the offences which would render him or her liable to be convicted as such again; (b) any person who is found to be in possession of breaking implements with the intent to commit house trespass; 187