HK Pharmacist Registration

It is the Registration Examination for non-locally trained applicants. Locally trained pharmacy graduates enter registration through the Board's Pharmacy Internship Training Programme instead, so the examination route exists for applicants whose pharmacy qualification was obtained outside Hong Kong and who need to demonstrate the required standard.

The Course of Training, Study and Examination for Applicants for Registration as Pharmacists Regulations, made under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance (Cap. 138). The Board's Ordinance and Regulations menu also lists the Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations, the Poisons List Regulations, the Pharmacy and Poisons (Pharmacy and Poisons Appeal Tribunal) Regulations and the Pharmacists (Disciplinary Procedure) Regulation.

The Board's announcements refer to a June Pharmacist Registration and a December Pharmacist Registration Examinations. The Board has published results of the June 2026 Pharmacist Registration and has announced that application for the December 2026 Pharmacist Registration Examinations is open. Check the What's New section for the current cycle and deadlines.

Use the Application for Registration Examinations, which the Board provides both as a downloadable form and as an online form through its eform service. The Registration Examination page under Registration of Pharmacists links to the application form. The Board's site does not publish the fee, closing dates or document checklist on the page text summarised here, so confirm these with the Board before submitting.

Start with the Ordinance itself: the Board is established under section 3 of Cap. 138 and operates under that Ordinance and its subsidiary legislation, so the poisons scheduling, retail and wholesale licensing, labelling and record-keeping provisions are core. Then work through the Code of Professional Conduct for the Guidance of Registered Pharmacists in Hong Kong, which the Board lists as revised.

The Board does not publish a pass rate, question count, duration or passing score on the pages summarised here, so difficulty cannot be quantified from official material. Expect the standard to be set at the level of a registrable pharmacist: precise recall of statutory definitions and poisons classifications, plus applied judgement on conduct and practice scenarios.

The Board's website does not set out a retake policy in the material summarised here, so no number of attempts or waiting period can be stated. Because sittings are advertised as June and December cycles, candidates should ask the Board directly about re-sitting before assuming a timeline for a second attempt.

Typically, candidates memorise drug names but not the statutory framework: which poisons fall in which schedule, what a registered pharmacist must record, and what separates an authorised seller of poisons from a listed seller. Others neglect the Code of Professional Conduct and answer practice questions with commercial rather than professional reasoning. Prepare both domains together.

No. This is independent study material prepared by a third party. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong. All authoritative information, forms and announcements come from the Board's own website, and candidates must rely on those rather than on this page for application decisions.