Perhaps, it was by this very (newly "discovered") law, HI Territorial Law 57, that someone was able to fill out this application (?) shown below, for a HI birth certificate that was only ever FILED and never ACCEPTED. Then, when HRS 338-17.8 was passed (in 1982), the record was amended to coincide with the new updated statue...perhaps triggered by someone needing a copy of the original record for some reason.
From the MOTION containing the HI Territorial Law 57 filled in the HOLLISTER v SOETORO case (linked above)...
"What in fact the territorial statute in effect before the 1982 statute sets out is an even greater latitude enabling and entitling persons to register a child for up to a year after its birth and to do so, if not attended by a locally licensed physician or midwife, for the parents or one of them to fill out the birth certificate or for a “local registrar” to fill out a birth certificate “from anyone having knowledge of the birth.” Thus a child born outside of Hawaii and attended by a non-Hawaii licensed health care provider or born unattended could get a Hawaii birth certificate nonetheless."
Application?