Not necessarily, because he could still have gotten a late birth certificate if he filed for one after the COHB program was ended. And as long as some kind of birth claim was submitted within the first year after birth he would not have needed a COHB. If it was filed after the first 3 months of life it would be a delayed birth certificate or a standard certificate that was marked as late.
See, this is where the terminology is confusing, because there’s a Hawaii birth certificate and there’s a certificate of Hawaiian birth, and they’re totally different things. The COHB has different numbering, requires a photo and description of physical identifiers, and is acquired through filing affidavits.
The delayed birth certificate is filed through a totally different application than a standard birth certificate, although a BC filed on a standard form but not completed until 3 months or more after birth would also be called a “delayed birth certificate”, according to 1961 terminology. By current terminology it would be a “late birth certificate”. At one point any delayed birth certificate was also called a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth, even though the forms are completely different.
So it’s all screwy. The term used today says practically nothing about what form is actually on record. There’s way too much wiggle room and ambiguity about which law or definition applies.
I’ll take your word for it on this one.