New Jersey § 2a:84a-19

§ 2a:84a-19.

Rule 25. 1 Subject to Rule 37, 2 every natural person has a right to refuse to disclose in an action or to a police

officer or other official any matter that will incriminate him or expose him to a

penalty or a forfeiture of his estate, except that under this rule: (a) no person has the privilege to refuse to submit to examination for the purpose

of discovering or recording his corporal features and other identifying characteristics

or his physical or mental condition; (b) no person has the privilege to refuse to obey an order made by a court to produce

for use as evidence or otherwise a document, chattel or other thing under his control

if some other person or a corporation or other association has a superior right to

the possession of the thing ordered to be produced; (c) no person has a privilege to refuse to disclose any matter which the statutes

or regulations governing his office, activity, occupation, profession or calling,

or governing the corporation or association of which he is an officer, agent or employee,

require him to record or report or disclose except to the extent that such statutes

or regulations provide that the matter to be recorded, reported or disclosed shall

be privileged or confidential; (d) subject to the same limitations on evidence affecting credibility as apply to

any other witness, the accused in a criminal action or a party in a civil action who

voluntarily testifies in the action upon the merits does not have the privilege to

refuse to disclose in that action, any matter relevant to any issue therein. 1

See, now, N.J.R.E. 503. 2

See, now, N.J.R.E. 530.